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TIL that Male Holocaust Survivors Have a Longer Life-Expectancy

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gMGN4 TIL President Nixon decided that 135 countries of the world each deserved to have a piece of the moon collected by American astronauts, so he gave away Goodwill Moon Rocks. It is believed that as many as half of the Goodwill Moon Rocks have been lost or stolen
v1MDR TIL that Hallet's Cove, NY was renamed Astoria to persuade John Jacob Astor, then the wealthiest man in the United States, to invest in the neighborhood. He only invested $500.
4Xl4J TIL about this 13-part British television drama about the houses of Habsburg, Hohenzollern, and Romanov.
WQv4 TIL only four countries in the world have no law requiring paid maternity leave: they are Liberia, Papua New Guinea, Swaziland, and the United States
8eXPV TIL tuna fish and mackerel don't seem to need sleep. For the Mozambique tilapia, only adults have been observed to sleep