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TIL that NASA asked Buzz Aldrin to refrain from quoting the Bible on the moon

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eD9D TIL that there was an Order of Temperance in the Middle Ages; members pledged to drink no more than 7 glasses of wine with each meal
gwj8 TIL: Saudi Arabia beheaded a man for ‘witchcraft and sorcery’ in 2012
b4a4 TIL the worlds first successful penis transplant patient had it removed 2 weeks later due to his wife’s “psychological rejection”
DBPp TIL the largest bird nest belonged to a pair of bald eagles, it measured in at 9 feet wide and 20 feet deep. It was estimated to weigh 4400 lbs.
0wedN TIL that politician Boss Tweed was brought down by Thomas Nast's cartoons, which painted him as the embodiment of corruption. Tweed said to aides, “Let's stop them damned pictures. I don't care so much what the papers write about—my constituents can't read—but damn it, they can see pictures.”