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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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4kpMJ TIL about the theory of Spontaneous Generation, which held that many types of animal would randomly form from things like mud and dust
BApD TIL that in his review of “Lulu”, the collaboration between Metallica and Lou Reed, Chuck Klosterman wrote: “If the Red Hot Chili Peppers acoustically covered the 12 worst Primus songs for Starbucks, it would still be (slightly) better than this.”
M7kab TIL Michael Jordan has an HEIR App
oBlor TIL of Naked Came the Stranger, a erotic romance novel written as a literary hoax by 24 different authors, each one taking a chapter. Some chapters had to be heavily edited because they were too well-written. Even after it was revealed to be a joke, it reached the NYTimes best-seller list.
1aQ9d TIL that the first computer programmers were women