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TIL the last man to walk on the moon wrote his daughter's initials in the moon dust. When the shuttle program later began, he chose to leave NASA, saying: "Once you've gone to the moon, staying home just isn't good enough."

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RD7w TIL in the province of Ontario, ‘inserting an instrument, hand, or finger beyond the labia majora’ is a controlled act requiring one to be licensed as a physician
5YKKn TIL of King's Lomatia, whose entire species consists of 500 identical clones in a 1.2 km area of Tasmania. The 44 thousand year old clonal colony “doesn’t do sex” and is dying out despite conservation attempts.
dg4Q TIL You only really have to shower once or twice a week, according to experts.
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