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TIL airline crew members are exposed to so much cosmic radiation in their jobs that they're classified as radiation workers

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DYlP TIL the word “oxymoron” is an oxymoron. The Greek word “oxy” means “sharp” and “moron” means “dull”.
10pd TIL that Jeff Bridges spent over a decade trying to bring “The Giver” to the screen, and wanted his father Lloyd Bridges to play the title character. By the time production actually started, his father was dead and he was old enough to play the role himself.
woGLE TIL although the term Pachyderm is still commonly used, the order of Pachydermata for classification is considered obsolete. The 3 families formerly referred to as pachyderms are now divided into 5 families.
b6Lb9 TIL Boeing's 737 MAX software was outsourced to $9-an-hour Indian engineers
QJX6X TIL White House Police officer Leslie Coffelt was fatally shot while protecting President Truman in an assassination attempt, but managed to kill his attacker with a headshot from 30 feet away before dying.