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TIL Neil Armstrong’s 82 year old grandmother told him to look around and not step on the moon if “it didn’t look good”. Neil agreed he wouldn’t.

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4XXMa TIL many shoe stores used to have unshielded x-ray devices, used to measure kids’ shoe fit
BrGBW TIL due to BBC's policy against product placement they couldn't play the original version of "The Cover of 'Rolling Stone'", and instead had DJs shout "Radio Times!", the title of BBC's own magazine, over the song's original chorus words "Rolling Stone".
VBWND TIL In Japan, Splintered baseball bats are given a new lease on life by being turned into kattobashi: "a mash-up of the Japanese word for chopsticks and a baseball chant that translates as 'get a big hit.”
XE17j TIL that Ikea's founder, the late billionare Ingvar Kamprad, was incredibly frugal: He disciplines his employees for not using both sides of the paper. He was once turned away from Businessman Of The Year Award for arriving by bus, and assembled all his furniture himself.
eoKg TIL in 2007, the largest Colossal Squid was captured by fishermen. They froze it for preservation, but when scientists decided to dissect it, they considered using a giant microwave to thaw it, since letting it thaw normally would take days and the outside of the squid might rot before the inside.