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TIL that golf is one of the only sports to have been played on the moon. In 1971, during the Apollo 14 mission, astronaut Alan Shepard hit two golf balls on the lunar surface using a makeshift six-iron.

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dm8K TIL that President Obamas Secret Service codename is Renegade
AB TIL that the same guy plays Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch, and has done since 1969. He’s still puppeteering both at 78.
j6oaM TIL there is probably a small harmless lump on your testes. It is mostly harmless, leftover tissue after birth and is present in around 80% of males.
JYvJ4 TIL that Hershey's designed a customized chocolate bar for the troops during WW2 called "D ration bar". It was so thick that soldiers had to shave slices off with a knife before chewing on it. By the end of the war, more than 3 billion ration bars had been produced.
NXv4J TIL Archimedes’ estimate for the number of grains of sand sufficient to fill the then known universe was 10^63 grains of sand