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TIL that scavengers are stealing WW2 shipwrecks to sell because the steel in those ships was made before atomic bomb detonations and are free of radiation contamination so it can be used to manufacture sensitive scientific and medical devices.

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WrdX TIL of the Toddler’s Truce, where British television stations would stop broadcasting between 6pm - 7pm to allow parents to put their children to bed.
nejbP TIL that heavy metal band Megadeth was given $8000 to record their first album, after spending half of it on drugs and food they then fired the original producer only to finish it on their own
Bgymy TIL that Lake Champlain was officially the sixth Great Lake for only about 3 weeks.
YpP1A TIL Hitler imprisoned his adult niece in their Munich apartment. She could not freely associate with friends, was forbidden romantic relationships, and Adolf or another chaperone accompanied her everywhere. She committed suicide at age 23. Hitler later claimed she was the only woman he ever loved.
W7G7Y TIL humans do not have 100,000 kilometers of blood vessels, it's more like 9,000-19,000 kilometers