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TIL Sperm Whales are capable of making clicking noises that are so loud they are deadly. Really deadly

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OGYO4 TIL that in the 1960s, the US roasted a 1440-acre swath of Wisconsin forest with ~10,000 curies of radiation for 6 months in order to determine how it affected the area. Most of the damage was confined to the area directly adjacent to the source, and the area is completely non-hazardous today.
rPEW TIL US government conscripted mentally and physically unfit soldiers for Vietnam war to avoid backlash from conscripting students
ljwK TIL 27-year-old Randall Jordan-Aparo died after being doused with chemical agents three times in 13 minutes while in a Florida confinement cell. Florida prison officials and the Florida Department oF Law Enforcement concluded there was no relationship between the gassing and Jordan-Aparo’s death
JYRGj TIL Sean Bean's screen appearance-to-death ratio is only slightly lower than Kenny from South Park (0.32 deaths/film vs 0.38 deaths/episode)
b6L1Q TIL that "On the 4th day of Christmas my true love gave to me 4 COLLY birds." Traditional versions of the "12 Days of Christmas" song include the word COLLY instead of CALLING. Colly likely means "black", as in my true love gave me 4 blackbirds on the 4th day of Christmas.