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TIL Buzz Aldrin’s mother’s maiden name was, coincidentally, Moon.

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QJ7nX TIL "The Christ" in "Jesus The Christ" is a title, and biblical naming conventions often used "Father's Name + Son" as a person's last name, so an entirely correct way to write Jesus' name would be - Jesus "The Christ" Josephson.
woexP TIL of the mud dauber, a family of wasps that creates nest out of dried mud. 176 people were killed in a plane crash believed to have been caused by a nest in a pitot tube, leading to faulty speed readings
9YnE7 TIL Aboriginal Australians have extremely intricate, multi-language 'songlines' - ancestor songs which guide/navigate them through extremely vast distances of Australian Terrain
WZDd TIL that Game considers Eminem to be “the most lyrically insane” hip-hop artist alive and when asked what he would do if Eminem started an industry beef with him he simply said, “run.”
R7Bb4 TIL: there is a radioactive mass created by the Chernobyl disaster that is so dense it could only be pierced by an AKM rifle, destroyed any camera that tried to take a picture of it (photographs had to be made with a mirror), and ate through 2m of materials to arrive at its current location.