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TIL In 1964 a criticality accident in Rhode Island at a nuclear facility resulted in the largest single full body dose of radiation in history, the equivalent of 700,000 X-rays at once | The victim died 49 hours later

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mxARM TIL Dr Pepper Was Once a Warm Drink
VBVLp TIL that a polar bear liver has enough vitamin A to kill 52 adults! Ito cells are cells in the liver that store Vitamin A (Lipid soluble). High Vitamin A production in marine algae at the bottom of the food chain results in polar bear livers with enough Vitamin A to last a human 143 years!
gJML TIL that Medgar Evers, an American civil rights activist, stated “you can kill a man, but you can’t kill an idea.” He was later shot and killed by a Klansman, but the civil rights movement lived on.
WkDJN TIL: Trinity Southern University was sued for allegedly selling fake degree after investigators was able to obtain a fake college degree for their cat.
wLywo TIL that France sent the one and only cat into space to gauge the effects of spaceflight on living creatures in the hopes that humans could follow