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TIL when Buzz Aldrin, second man on the moon, guest starred in The Simpsons, writers were concerned he would be offended by his line, "second comes after first," and offered an alternative- "first to take a soil sample." However, Aldrin preferred the original line, and it remained in the script.

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BrOgk TIL about Cliff Young. An Australian farmer who, at 61 years old, won an "Ultramarathon", running for over 5 days without stopping.
E1jG0 TIL, South Korea is the world leader in internet connectivity. Approximately 95.1% of the country’s population are internet users, and they boast the world’s fastest average connection speed. The government established policies and programs that facilitated the rapid expansion and use of broadband.
WkNvX TIL in the early 20th century, trains in the US were destroyed in staged head-on collisions in front of live audiences for entertainment. This ended in the 1930s as it was seen to be wasteful of old but otherwise useful locomotives at the height of the Great Depression.
gMjJ8 TIL of the Treaty of Canandaigua between the USA and the Iroquois in 1794. Article 6, requiring the US to provide $4500 in goods every year, is honored to this day, but Article 2, protecting the land of the Oneida, was mostly ignored and their land fell from 6,000,000 acres to just 32 acres in 1920.
M7MWK TIL of the Vai syllabary, a script used for writing the Vai language of Liberia. It is hypothesized to be based off the Cherokee script, used by the Indigenous Cherokee people in modern day South Eastern United States, and diffused from Cherokee migrants on the Liberian coast.