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TIL That during the height of the cold war, Neil Armstrong’s final task on the moon was to place memorial items honoring fallen Russian cosmonauts.

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NQOE TIL Byron White was a former star football player who became a Supreme Court Justice. He ruled in the case of Runyon v. McCrary in which a black student was rejected by a private school. That student, Michael McCrary would later become a NFL Linebacker and won the Byron White NFL Award in 2000.
yQAlV TIL Jesse James once paid off a widow's mortgage and saved her from foreclosure because she gave him food. He made sure she got a receipt from the banker and then robbed the man a mile down the road.
wyVW TIL you are more likely to be killed by a toddler in the United States than by a terrorist
1aO7D TIL the USA only ranks #43 in a list of countries by home ownership rate (64.5%). Romania is 1st with 96.4%.
M7jV0 TIL that just 53 days after being sworn in, the signing of the Enabling Act of 1933 by the Nazi Party cleared the way for Hitler and the Nazis to seize power, ending the Weimar Republik, a Constitutional Republic.