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TIL Paramount Studios approved Jackass 3D after seeing test footage of Chris Pontius’ penis tethered to a remote-controlled helicopter

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6wy7 TIL Coal Power Plants generate more radiation than Nuclear Power Plants. Coal contains uranium and thorium, both radioactive elements.They occur in such trace amounts in natural coal. But when coal is burned into fly ash, uranium and thorium are concentrated at up to 10 times their original levels.
nePxb TIL Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have succeeded in extracting a complete human genome from a thousands-of-years old "chewing gum."
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