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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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QJdVd TIL in 2016, a K5 security robot accidentally ran over a 16-month-old toddler and then drove off, in what’s surely one of the first robotic hit and runs.
ZpKpG TIL in 1804, a Haitian force comprised mostly of former slaves went house-to-house torturing and killing most of the remaining European population. Between 3,000 and 5,000 were killed.
dZj7 TIL the odds of your father’s sperm meeting with your mother’s egg to create you is 1 in 4 quadrillion. The odds of you existing as yourself (traced back to your first ancestors) is 10^2,685.000.
MaOK TIL the first UK same-sex marriage in prison consist of two men who are in prison for homophobic motivated murders.
lXaB TIL that if a person was able to provide proof that they slept with Tim Tebow, they would be given one million dollars