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TIL that Buzz Aldrin was the first man to urinate on the moon.

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1aDjV TIL that Karl Blossfeldt, an early pioneer in macro photography, captured astonishing images of plants and nature at 30x magnification in the 1920s.
8ro8 TIL that Saddam Hussein owned a Quran written in his own blood.
j691j TIL a 1995 experiment by Oberholzer et al showed DNA replication inside tiny spherical lipid bilayer structures called liposomes (similar to cell membranes)- mimicing early cellular conditions. They showed that DNA replication, through the polymerase chain reaction, can occur within these liposomes.
NXY8E TIL The Potlatch Ceremony, where Native leaders gave away or destroyed valuables during a great feast, was banned from 1885 to 1951 in Canada yet persisted in secret during that time
grAPD TIL in 1964, Japan awarded the First‐Class Order of Merit of the Grand Cordon of the Rising Sun, one of its highest decorations, to Curtis LeMay, the General who had directed the fire bombing of Japan's cities which caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people.