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TIL Grand Central Station emits more radiation than a nuclear power plant

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x670B TIL that Violet Jessop, a courageous ship's nurse from the 20th century, miraculously survived three disastrous shipwrecks: the Olympic in 1911, the Titanic in 1912, and the Britannic in 1916.
j6dj TIL A family foreclosed a bank for trying to foreclose them illegally, and then not paying the legal fees when the family won.
XJNk TIL that a “safer cigarette” (The XA Project) was developed in the 70s but tobacco companies pressured the inventor to bury it because it implied their cigarettes were unsafe.
yggl TIL that in ‘The Godfather’, McCluskey’s shooting was done by building a fake forehead on top of actor Sterling Hayden. A gap was cut in the middle, filled with fake blood, and was bunged up with prosthetic flesh. The plug was yanked out with fishing line, making a hole suddenly appear.
WDQB TIL American bisons were hunted with the intention of destroying the food source of the natives.