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TIL Apollo 16 astronaut Charles Duke left a family photo behind on the moon in 1972

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epygE TIL that the ancient Greeks had a form of "voting" called ostracism, where citizens could vote to banish a person from the city for ten years.
v8n7 TIL that a UK environmental agency found that reusing plastic shopping bags as garbage bags is more beneficial than recycling them
VBLRG TIL unassisted marathon swims can be relays with varied numbers of participants
wo8RP TIL that the Yamato, the largest battleship ever built, was on a 3,000-man kamikaze mission to beach herself on Okinawa before she was sunk by US forces in April of 1945.
9YAVD TIL Pencils produced in the 1990s with the anti-drug slogan "Too Cool to Do Drugs" were recalled because, when sharpened, they read "Do Drugs"