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TIL After a heart attack, the body increases sleep time in order to limit heart inflammation and damage

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kOxZe TIL that the steel used in MRI machines, geiger counters and other radiation detecting gear is primarily sourced from German WWI battleships, scuttled in Scapa Flow in 1919 because the steel was made before nuclear bombs were detonated, thus contaminating the air with radionuclides in 1945.
Y7PLB TIL Kinshasa (DRC) and Brazzaville (Congo), being only 7km across the Congo River from each other, are the second closest pair of capital cities in the world after the Vatican and Rome.
g8o7 TIL that a woman found her lost engagement ring, wrapped around a carrot, after 16 years.
BrNQD TIL The amazing James Randi exposed a fraudulent "Faith Healer" named Peter Popoff who was using a ear mic to fool believers into divine healing.
p8YJp TIL that prior to the 1970's the 2nd Amendment wasn't interpreted as an individual's right to bear arms, and that it has an entirely unnecessary comma.