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TIL that marble countertops are radioactive and can emit radon gas

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VBVrm TIL a week before Eminem's album The Eminem Show (2002) was released, it was the second-most played CD on computers, the highest ranking ever for an unreleased title.
mx5GY TIL if you're ordering and paying for extra ingredients at an U.S. restaurant you're paying on the average a 426% mark-up for extra sour cream, 417% for cheese on a burger, and 525% for any ingredients on a pizza. An unidentified pizza chain has a 636% mark up for meat in their "meat-laden" pizza.
0V8R TIL that fire burns in a sphere without gravity to stoke it
8aVRP TIL about Leo Marks, WW2 cryptographer, who was given a 20 minute training exercise on his first day at work which took him the whole day to complete. He had accidentally not been given the cipher key and ended up breaking a code that was meant to be secure.
e01OD TIL despite being 200 miles away from the ocean, a beluga whale skeleton was found in Charlotte, Vermont, USA and is the result of an ice sheet pushing down the North American continent.