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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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X01Ar TIL The Soup Nazi was first referenced in Sleepless in Seattle, 2 years before appearing on Seinfeld
yGWM TIL Vikings may have fought under the influence of shrooms and large amount of alcohol in order to go berserk. (berserksgang)
rR7Jx Today I learned about Ossip Bernstein, a famous chess master who escaped the firing squad by winning a game of chess.
oRKKE TIL Lobsters use their feet to taste. The lobster's equivalent of human taste buds are the tiny bristles found inside its tiny pincers. In the meantime, one of the three stomachs of lobsters has teeth.
7rmJr TIL of beaked whales, a set of 22 species of whales with beaks like dolphins, some of which reach sizes of over 42 feet and which prey on colossal squid in the deep sea.