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TIL there are baby MRI machines!

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ANkXx TIL there's a permanent scale model solar system in Sweden, with a huge globe arena as the sun.
E1M57 TIL In Raiders’ iconic truck chase, Spielberg filmed Harrison Ford for only a few seconds (closeups). 2nd unit director, Michael D Moore, filmed most of the scene with stunt doubles, including Terry Leonard who performed Indy dragged underneath the truck and cameoed as the first Nazi truck driver
0k41 TIL that in rural Georgia, there are still “Whites Only” school functions, where non-whites are turned away by the police. In 2013, Wilcox County High School will be having its first integrated prom.
p8P0Z TIL - All steel produced after WW2 is contaminated with radionuclides from atomic bombs. "Low-backround steel" is steel made before or during WW2, and is needed for precise measuring and censor equipment, such as equipment for measuring radionuclides in steel.
e0lpL TIL that in Western Australia there is a giant abandoned American military base that is a slice of 60’s Americana. Bowling alleys, baseball fields and signs telling you to drive on the right hand side of the road.