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TIL: The United States tested nuclear weapons in Micronesia and used their population as live guinea pigs to study the effects of long-term radiation exposure.

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ePJ4 TIL, on its page for ‘This Is Spinal Tap,’ IMDb enables users to rate the movie out of 11 stars (e.g. 8.0/11) instead of the standard scale of one to ten.
PYY8w TIL Tom Petty needed an actress to be a dead woman for a music video. He explained his choice by saying "She's got to look really good, or why would [I] keep her around after she's dead?" I thought, Kim Basinger would be good. I'd probably keep her for a day or two, let's go see if she would do it."
yQ9Zw TIL the cause of Canker Sores or Ulcers in the mouth are not known. There is also no cure at this time.
9Y8l7 TIL that for years, Soviet hipsters (stilyagi) bootlegged vinyl records onto x-ray paper after it was banned by the government - it was called "bone music"
OoN0Y TIL that "Big Ben" is not a clock, a tower, or even a building. It is the name of the large bell that is located inside Elizabeth tower.