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TIL that the oldest recorded signs of a lottery date from the Han Dynasty in ancient China, and were used to help finance major government projects like the Great Wall.

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KOlb6 TIL of Fallen Astronaut - a small aluminum sculpture of an astronaut. The sculpture was authorized to be brought on board Apollo 15, but astronaut David Scott placed it on the moon as a memorial to American and Soviet casualties of their respective space programs.
ne0yY TIL British colonizers infected Tasmanian Aboriginal women with venereal diseases that left a significant percentage of the population unable to reproduce. This was one of several factors leading the complete eradication of the Tasmanian Aboriginal people.
BrWjd TIL Epilepsy kills as many people per year as Breast Cancer
b6Bv4 TIL that the Italian royal family was banished from the country in 1946 and were not allowed to return until 2002.
6EMA8 TIL sea otters have the densest fur in the world, with around 140,000 hairs per sq cm