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TIL that in 1987 two Brazilian men looking for scrap, unknowinlgy stole a teletherapy unit, along with the highly radioactive Caesium 137 in it, took it home and tried to dismantle it, directly killing 4 and contaminating 250 people in their wake.

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b9ML9 TIL about the highest-paid performer in the world in the 1910s: Scottish singer and comedian Sir Harry Lauder. He rose from being a coal miner singing in occasional town concerts to commanding over £12,000 per night. He was the first British artist to sell a million records.
0dJEN TIL the bubbles in champagne form tight lines rising to the top & most other carbonated beverages don't. Champagne contains surfactant molecules that keep the bubbles from leaving a wake as they move, preventing them from acting like the connected simultaneously-rising bubbles in other drinks.
7rEBr TIL in 2017 Kellogg's was forced to apologize after illustrating Corn Pops box with light-colored pops having fun at the mall while a dark-colored pop scrubbed the floor as a janitor
OLnL TIL St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital was founded in 1962 by comedian Danny Thomas. He promised St. Jude that if he made him successful, he would one day build him a shrine. The hospital has since become a leader in the study and treatment of children’s cancer. St. Jude got his shrine.
OG0jY TIL of The Divided Church at Kreuzbichl in Austria, which is divided into two sections with the viewing gallery and church seperated by an active road. Its thought to be the only seperated Church in the world.