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TIL the granite used to build the US Capitol is so radioactive that the building would fail federal safety codes regulating nuclear power plants.

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e0WGE TIL that the soda can tab is engineered to be operate as two different levers: a second-class lever pulls open the middle vent which depressurizes the can and then the first-class lever opens the drinking spout.
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