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TIL: The most popular of the US national media sources—Fox, CNN, MSNBC—seem to be the least informative, while Fox news actually makes you less informed than watching no news at all.

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GAe5E TIL the record for most number of leaves grown on a clover is 63
e08g5 TIL when Eva Peron died at 33, her body was embalmed and put on display. After a military coup it was lost for 16 years, until it was found in Italy and returned to her husband who kept it in his dining room. Upon his death, both corpses were displayed together briefly before finally being buried.
KOlxQ TIL of Harry Daghlian, a 24 year-old physicist with the Manhattan Project. He accidentally dropped a brick into the centre of a plutonium core and exposed himself to a lethal dose of radiation, dying 25 days after the accident.
m10kM TIL: San Francisco is no longer the most expensive place to live.
0WmR TIL PETA kills thousands of adoptable dogs and cats that enter their shelters each year.