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TIL the photons harnessed for solar energy are the same ones responsible for skin cancer.

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GYQAJ TIL Maria Daume, the first female marine to go through the traditional training process, was born in a Siberian prison and orphaned at age 2.
gr119 TIL in 1871 to support the need for more bells in the Cologne Cathedral, Kaiser Wilhelm I donated 24 captured French canons to be melted down and cast. The three ton bell created was named Kaiserglocke. Ironically the bell was melted down in 1918 to support the German war effort.
yRMp TIL there is a lucky cribbage board that gets passed along from the oldest submarine in the US fleet to the next once the oldest one is decommissioned. It currently resides in a submarine launched in 1978.
5Yn0Q TIL Words like Juggernaut, Punch, Calico,Shampoo have been brought by the British Raj from India to the English language.
WDGN TIL that the US now uses less water than it did in 1970