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TIL in 2005 Rick Moranis released a Grammy nominated country album The Agoraphobic Cowboy

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oBRWY TIL that without oceans, complex earth-like life is unlikely to evolve because oceans ensure stability of surface temperatures between extremes
R7Nr6 TIL: The first food consumed on the Moon was Christian sacramental bread and wine by Buzz Aldrin. He kept it a secret due to lawsuits filed by American Atheists over the Genesis reading on Christmas 1968.
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