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TIL that highly sensitive devices used to detect radionuclides have to be made from steel salvage from sunken WWI&II ships, as steel since then has been contaminated too much from nuclear bombs.

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99PM TIL of “Operation Wrath of God”, where Israel responded to the 1972 Munich massacre by having the Mossad hunt down and assassinate anyone they believed was involved over the course of more than 20 years.
ANKbB TIL 40% of HPV related cancers occur in men.
Wkb9X TIL that cum gutters are actually called iliac furrows. People also know them as Apollo's belt and Adonis' belt.
R5apj TIL that soccer players run much farther than other sports averaging 7 miles a game, compared with 2.55 miles for Basketball and 1.25 miles for American football
Lk98r TIL the NASA cameras that tracked Apollo rockets were built off of M-45 quadmount anti-aircraft gun systems