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TIL that Harvard’s health care plan covers transgender surgeries.

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Y6xr TIL that molten tungsten is so hot, that if you dropped it into lava, the lava would freeze the tungsten…
JY6Bl TIL Lions may sleep a full 24 hours straight
Qeke TIL in 1981 a man named Roger Fischer had an idea for a volunteer to have ICBM launch codes put in their chest cavity. In the event of an emergency, the volunteer would carry a knife to be killed with. It was meant to force the personal killing of one man to start the impersonal killing of millions.
x6LQ1 TIL that Waikiki Beach in Hawaii is almost entirely artificial. Sand was brought in from Manhattan Beach, CA via barge to Waikiki as early as the 1920s. Sand imports ceased in the 1970s, with sand from about 2000 feet offshore used to replenish now.
0dmaj TIL that the 1992 film Unforgiven was intended by Clint Eastwood to be a goodbye to the traditional Westerns he had done, as Eastwood feared repeating himself or others.