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TIL about Nuclear Semiotics - the study of how to warn people 10,000+ years from now about nuclear waste, when all known languages may have disappeared

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nrXo TIL that hockey player, Jarome Iginla, donates $2,000 to the children’s charity Kidsport for every goal he scores. Since 2000 it has added up to more than $700,000.
4N5R TIL that up to 25% of the population may have trouble distinguishing between right and left, even into adulthood.
Z8o9a TIL There is a giant "Parabelrutsche" or Parabolic slide in the Mathematics department of the technical university in Munich.
PYNZJ TIL that when Joseph Stalin was dying, his private physician was not available because he was already being tortured in the basement of the KGB headquarters for suggesting the Soviet leader required more bed rest.
njwP TIL that the Titanic is the only ocean liner to ever be sunk by an iceberg.