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TIL scientists have dosed naked mole rats with carcinogens and radiation, yet they have never been observed to develop cancer. They tolerate acid, live 6x longer than other rodents, they hardly age, they survive long periods of oxygen deprivation and can live in heavy metal polluted areas.

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dD0DZ TIL the 1975 union promo song "Look For the Union Label" was popular enough to be used in political campaigns, spoofed by SNL and decades later by South Park. but it failed in its goal to slow the growth of non-union clothing manufacturing jobs and foreign imports
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NXABP TIL that, while stationed in Haiti, Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant Faustin Wirkus was crowned king by a local tribal queen as he seemed fit their local prophecy.
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