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TIL that when a Manhattan Project scientist was asked to calculate whether a human being could survive exposure to a very high dose of radiation, she only learned later that the person that had received the dose was her husband.

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ag4M TIL the man who invented the first beer tap also invented the modern toilet
OGEDX TIL Tigers in the Sundarbans region of India and Bangladesh have been known to hunt and kill humans. Until recently, it is estimated that these tigers got 3% of their calories from eating humans.
gMnvb TIL Mets fan Mike Sergio parachuted on to the field during the 1986 World Series. He was jailed for 21 days and given 500 hours community service. To this day he refuses to reveal the pilots name.
OG8Na TIL: Julia Agripppina of Rome was the mother of Nero and orchestrated his rise to power through poison and politics. However, she lost her influence over him and he forced her out of the palace, stripped her powers and bodyguards, sent people to annoy her, and in 3 different accounts, killed her.
ovvo TIL that there is an organism that exists as a single celled organism when times are good, but under stress gathers together to form a slug, which climbs to a favorable spot and becomes a plant which launches spores which become single cells again.