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TIL there’s a species of bacteria so resistant to radiation that scientists have nicknamed it “Conan the Bacterium”

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9rbB TIL The 13,000 sq. miles National Radio Quiet Zone in West Virginia does not allow cell phones, cordless phones, WiFi, digital cameras, automatic door openers, or gasoline engines. Pocahontas County, pop. 8,719, is the home to the National Radio Astronomy Observatory’s Green Bank Telescope.
9Y5jm TIL over International Military Sports Council, made up of 134 countries, sends almost 10,000 servicemen to compete in the Military World Games. These are the military version of the Olympics. The most recent games were held in October, in Wuhan, China and only 100 countries participated.
bgkp TIL that rockstar Alice Cooper used to babysit Keanu Reeves.
LkRMm TIL the European portion of Russia is less than 25% of the country's territory, but has 78% of the country's population, making European Russia the most populous country in Europe.
GME1 TIL Cuexcomate, near Puebla, Mexico, was thought to be the world’s smallest volcano at just 43ft tall, but was later found to be an empty cone of an extinct geyser. The Pueblans threw bodies of suicide victims into it & believed that if you lived around it, you were ‘under the rule of the devil.’