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TIL Grand Central Station, due to it’s granite construction, is radioactive enough to fail an inspection if it were a nuclear power station.

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Yn4G TIL A Frenchwoman, Jeanne de Clisson, became a pirate in the 1300’s for revenge after her husband was beheaded. Selling her lands to buy 3 ships, they were painted black with red sails. Hunting French ships, when she caught nobles, she personally beheaded them with an axe.
xjkw TIL:A captive shark, vomited up another, different shark, which had a human arm in it’s belly, and the arm was used to solve a murder.
e4d4 TIL a software company buried a $1,000 prize deep in its Terms of Service to see if anyone actually read them. After 4 months and over 3,000 sales, someone finally asked about the prize
p89aG TIL jellyfish have been attacking nuclear power plants in Japan and India since the 1960s, with up to 150 tons per day removed from the cooling system of just 1 power plant. In India, workers removed over 4mil jellyfish from screens over the entrances to cooling pipes. That’s 80 tons of jellyfish.
wxWM TIL they are called Brussels sprouts, not brussel sprouts