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TIL Kazakhs living in the vicinity of the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test site believe they are a new breed of human and call themselves 'nuclear mutants', who have adapted to the radiation present in their home. Some even believe they need it to survive.

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rNdK4 TIL early credit cards were launched in "drops", wherein banks would mail unsolicited cards to tens of thousands of customers at once. The banks then leveraged that customer base to get local stores to accept the cards. Over 100 million cards were distributed before drops were made illegal in 1970.
d1KB TIL Hugh Hefner was tried on obscenity charges in Chicago in 1963, but the jury was hung.
W7gyX TIL As of 2018, only 2% of English adults aged 18–24 belonged to the Church of England while 70% claimed to have no religion.
jNYdN TIL that Dexter Fletcher, the man who does the voiceover for the UK McDonalds adverts, directed Rocketman (2019), Eddie the Eagle (2015) and finished directing Bohemian Rhapsody (2018); and starred in Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrells (1998).
y8N8 TIL: Horses have the largest eyes of any land mammal