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TIL 95% of the ocean is unexplored.

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XEmeD TIL about a couple of guys that stole highly radioactive material from an abandoned hospital (not knowing what it was), thought it was cool since it was glowing, sold it to people, who shared it with friends and family...and well, ended up killing 4 and contaminating 249.
RKG9 TIL that Abraham Lincoln created the secret service just hours before he was assassinated.
6PJW TIL Chinese checkers is a a German variation of an American game. It was later introduced to the Chinese by the Japanese.
N7WdJ TIL of Rosalind Franklin, a X-ray crystallographer whose discovery of the double-helix structure of DNA went uncredited for years is now beginning to finally get her due credit.
NXQPE TIL that the UK ran a fake German radio station in WW2. The announcer of "Gustav Siegfried Eins" was "Der Chef", supposedly a patriotic traditional German officer who denounced corrupt Nazi officials. When "Der Chef" was killed by the Gestapo, the station accidentally broadcast his death twice.