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TIL ‘Jersey Shore’ is known in Japan as 'Macaroni Rascals’
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TIL Columbus thought that some manatees he saw were mermaids. He wrote that they were ‘not half as beautiful as they are painted’
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TIL Bookkeeper (or bookkeeping) is the only English word with 3 consecutive double letters
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TIL that Oklo mine in Africa consists of 16 sites at which self-sustaining nuclear fission reactions which are thought to have taken place approximately 1.7 billion years ago, and ran for hundreds of thousands of years.
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TIL: During the Vietnam War, the US decided to draft 350,000 people who had failed military entrance tests. “McNamera’s Morons” died at 3x the rate of other GIs.
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TIL the 9/11 tragedy released a cloud of asbestos fibers over NYC. 400 tons of asbestos was in the WTC building. An estimated 410,000 people were exposed to the toxic substance. Nearly 70% of rescuers have lung problems. Experts expect cancer diagnoses to peak in 2041-four decades after the attack.