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TIL the US Dept of Transportation values a human life at 13.7 million dollars in a statistical sense, when evaluating potential safety standards.

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1A8D TIL there is a nuclear waste repository under construction set to be completed in 2100 and then sealed shut intentionally for over 100,000 years. The crew has considered placing markers on the site with every major language to warn future generations not to drill into the bedrock.
b9r77 TIL Quarantine was first invented in Venice.
GY0kJ TIL The most performed living composer in the world for 8 years, & cited by Aphex Twin, Radiohead, Sigur Ros & others as influential, Arvo Pärt has been nominated for for 11 Grammy Awards & has won twice. His music has been used in many films, including There will be Blood, & Avengers
VMGgp TIL in 1918, microbiologist Alice Catherine Evan warned that raw milk should be pasteurized to protect people from various diseases. She was met with skepticism, particularly because she was a woman and did not have a Ph.D. During the 1920s, scientists around the world made the same findings
mEnR TIL Women don’t have a higher pain threshold than men, and that at a biological level both are the same.