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TIL there are radioactive elements called "bone seekers" because they are chemically similar to calcium and the body tries to use them to build bones.

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kJvZB TIL: Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC). They are clinics that operate with government funding, sliding scale, and some insured to help care for the communities of uninsured and underinsured.
gr7wA TIL Benjamin Franklin was fond of dating older women, (in)famously writing 8 reasons why they were better than their younger counterparts. Among them, he stated that they naturally provided birth control, were discrete, and could not be distinguished from younger women from the girdle downwards.
MaWB TIL that in 1977, the “Human Calculator” Shakuntala Devi found the 23rd root of a 201-digit number in 50 seconds.
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