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TIL that bone china is made from bone ash, feldspathic material and kaolin, and it originated in the UK, not in China.

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9wrQG TIL 50 years after the last Apollo mission in 1972, only 4 of the 12 moonwalkers are still alive: Charlie Duke, Buzz Aldrin, Dave Scott and Harrison Schmitt. After leaving NASA, Duke chose the creationist belief that everything in the universe was created by a God
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