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TIL a week after radioactive material was discovered missing from a US oil field in Iraq, it was found “just lying around near a gas station in the country’s south”

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pmL4 TIL it’s actually “Whet your appetite”, not ‘wet’. Whet means to sharpen, as as a whetstone sharpens a knife.
09bA Today I learned, the Inuit people make traditional sunglasses from caribou horns to protect themselves from sun blindness.
OoG74 TIL in Tanzania (East Africa), witch hunts have increased as albino deaths have jumped. Accused witches are burned alive.
gr9V8 TIL there were 4 empires on which the sun never sets- Hapsburg Empire of Charles V, Spanish Empire of Phillip II, British Empire, and US Imperialism
PYkV TIL That the hospital explosion scene from The Dark Knight was improvised by Heath Ledger after the explosions failed to detonate.