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TIL that all 6 American flags on the moon have turned completely white.

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9wKnD TIL In 1960, Tonight Show host Jack Paar resigned and walked off mid-broadcast after a joke about toilets was censored. He changed his mind and returned three weeks later on the condition that he could tell the joke.
rNyNx TIL that Treadmills were used as punishment devices for people sentenced to forced labor in British prisons. It was banned as cruel and inhumane by 1900.
WJo9 TIL Japan has 67 flavors of Fanta, including ‘The Mystery Fruit’, 'Genius Energy’ and 'Hip Hop’ flavor.
ZpPVQ TIL that contrary to popular belief, the Mesopotamian god Dagon has nothing to do with fish or the sea, and the portrayal of him as a fish god based entirely on the medieval belief that his name was derived from the Hebrew word for fish, "dāg", which was debunked in the 1920s
R59V1 TIL about Terry Davis, a schizophrenic engineer who was"told by God" to create an operating system, resulting in TempleOS. And then there was that incident with alien artifacts on his X-ray.