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TIL Apollo 16 astronaut Charlie Duke believes that Earth was created 6,000 years ago despite picking up the oldest moon rock known to man dated 4.46 billion years old.

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0wE61 TIL that the Texas School Book Depository building, from where Lee Harvey Oswald shot and killed President of the United States John F. Kennedy, was slated for demolition prior to the assassination, but was then preserved to investigate the murder, and is now a museum and National Historic Landmark
4XBK5 TIL Ketamine is a potent antidepressant. A single low, sub-anesthetic dose of ketamine given via intravenous infusion may produce antidepressant effects within four hours in people with depression. These antidepressant effects may persist for up to several weeks following a single infusion.
8V0V TIL that the guy who wrote the US Pledge of Allegiance was a socialist, and wanted to include “equality and fraternity” but omitted them because the, “state superintendents of education on his committee were against equality for women and African Americans.”
7rQVx TIL of the Bechdel test- a movie that passes must have two women that talk to each other about something other than a man. Almost half of all movies fail.
Yp9xd TIL that "The Wizard" by Paul Hardcastle, which became the theme music for Top Of The Pops in the 80s, was ostensibly about 1970s kids character Catweazle, an 11th century Wizard who time-travels to the present day. The track samples dialogue from the show.