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TIL the leader of the US nuclear regulatory agency is Mr. Burns

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R8o1 TIL some people get “weather headaches” from changes in barometric pressure
e0Kdb TIL the Cryptex, the cylindrical combination vaults that hold secret messages, made famous in The Da Vinci Code, is a neologism completely invented by Dan Brown and has no historical connection to a real device of the sort.
Oo5E4 TIL that Prince Philip was not allowed to invite his three sisters to his wedding to Princess (now Queen) Elizabeth in 1947, because they were all married to German noblemen, and this would have been considered inappropriate in postwar Britain.
L46V TIL that humans do to horseshoe crabs what conspiracy theorists claim aliens do to humans. We capture the crabs in huge numbers, drain their blood, and then return them to the ocean.
MrkA TIL reddit upvotes were called ‘boosts’