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TIL: Between 255 and 320 “General Lee” cars were used and mostly destroyed during the filming of the Dukes of Hazard TV show.

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Lkylp TIL that Plutonium is so toxic that if 500g of plutonium dust released into the air, it would be sufficient to kill nearly 2 million people. It is just due to heavy metal poison effects, not radioactivity. This makes the toxicity of plutonium roughly equivalent to that of nerve gas.
nr1W TIL Elephants are Evolving to Lose Their Tusks to Avoid Poachers
K0eQ TIL That some women can have orgasms every 30 seconds for 6 to 8 hours a day. (Persistent Sexual Arousal Syndrome)
Oo791 TIL in the summer of 2018 a man who flunked the London paramedic exams managed to infiltrate the paramedics' internal computer system and pose as a qualified paramedic. As a result he managed to respond to over 100 emergency calls before he was caught.
x64X0 TIL that in 2009, a campaign succeeded in making Rage Against the Machine's 'Killing in the Name' the Christmas number 1 best-selling single in the UK after the public grew tired of X Factor winners topping the chart every year.