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TIL Doc Brown is Hacker. Support PBS lol

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glWW TIL that soft drinks like Coke and Pepsi are often used instead of harmful pesticides in India
LkL5p TIL United Way set a world record by releasing almost one-and-a-half million balloons that resulted in unexpected disaster. The event was intended to be a harmless fundraising publicity stunt, but the balloons drifted back over the city, Lake Erie, and landed in the surrounding area.
D1Wrj TIL some of the most popular surnames 100 years ago, like Daft, Balls, Smeille, Death and Shufflebottom, are facing extinction due the their rude undertones. The use of the name Cock is down by almost 75%.
kkQ7 TIL Apollo 15’s crew left a plaque on the Moon commemorating both American astronauts and Russian cosmonauts who had died for space exploration
OoKM6 TIL a producer on Family Ties felt Michael J. Fox was too short for the role and tried to have him replaced saying “this isn’t the face you'll see on a lunch-box." Fox later gave him a custom-made lunch-box with the inscription "this is for you to put your crow in. Love and Kisses, Michael J. Fox.”