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TIL: Ancient Athenians had ‘ostracism’ elections in which everyone voted for the most hated citizen. That citizen would then be banished for 10 years.

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e01M5 TIL the effect that grapefruit juice has on the absorption of many pharmaceutical drugs was discovered accidentally, when studying the effect of alcohol on drug absorption. The study used grapefruit juice to mask the taste of alcohol for a blind test.
0daVR TIL On the 1955 Episode of "This Is Your Life" in which Hiroshima survivor Kiyoshi Tanimoto, thinking he was doing a straight interview, is instead treated to a surprise meeting with the man who piloted the Enola Gay, Capt. Robert Lewis, co-pilot and aircraft commander.
KByQ TIL Actor who played Crabbe in Harry Potter was imprisoned for two years because of his participation in the 2011 England Riots
xax7 TIL that the proof for 1+1=2 is 52 steps long
QNQ4E TIL that Canada supplied India its first reactor, the CIRUS, during the 1950s, exclusively for "peaceful purposes", but over the protestations of Canada, became the source of India's first nuclear warhead.