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TIL that the traditional way of proposing to someone in Japan is about miso soup

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Yx7G TIL that while Neil Armstrong was the first man on the moon, Buzz Aldrin was the first man to pee on the moon.
0Ep5 TIL in June 2001 the longest train in the world set out across Western Australia. It was over 7 kilometres long and weighed nearly 100,000 tons.
XErYR TIL Indians are relearning Sanskrit and reviving the ancient language, with 10,000 new speakers in 2010 alone
YB07 TIL Broken Lizard is in the process of making Super Troopers 2, and is only being held up by a legal situation with FOX.
vPyQ8 TIL A residential developer planned to create a community of mini-castles in Mudurnu, Turkey. Following economic turmoil, the community now sits as an abandoned town with hundreds of identical, half-finished mini-castles.