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TIL that there are detailed images of all the Apollo landing sites. You can even see the tracks left by the Astronauts as they performed their experiments.

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k0Xe TIL While playing a game of Chess in France, Benjamin Franklin took his opponent’s King after she inadvertently put it in check. When she said, “Ah, we don’t take kings so” Franklin replied, “We do in America.”
kJLJE TIL grapefruit is a hybrid of sweet orange and pomelo
Y5kP TIL German and Swedish passports are the most powerful passports in the world. The least powerful is from Afghanistan.
Ob8X TIL scientists have found that Ozzy Osbourne has unique genetic mutations that that increase his body’s endurance for hard drugs and excessive alcohol: the “genes connected to addiction, alcoholism … all had unique variations in Osbourne, a few of which geneticists had never seen before”
wMx1 TIL 60% of Americans consume less than 1 alcoholic drinks a day on average, while the top 10% of American alcohol consumers ingest about 10 drinks per day, or nearly 74 drinks per week.