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TIL Gold can be created in a laboratory, but it is dangerously radioactive.

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mg5Y TIL Daniel Inouye was an American soldier in WWII who got shot in the stomach while engaging 3 machine gun nests, then had his right hand blown off from a rifle grenade, and finally proceeded to pry out the grenade from his amputated hand and throw it in the nest.
bZNj TIL on August 16, 1942, a military blimp left San Francisco bay on a routine submarine-spotting mission. A few hours later, the airship wandered back over land and crashed with nobody aboard. Life rafts and other rescue gear had not been touched, and the fate of the 2-man crew has never been solved.
lkK7 TIL Pregnant women who swallow their partner’s semen has a reduced risk of preeclampsia - a potentially dangerous pregnancy complication characterised by high blood pressure.
J1NE4 TIL Arnold Schwarzenegger was going to play Kyle Reese in the 1984 film The Terminator
OKP1 TIL of the Law of Urination: all mammals, regardless of size, take the same time to pee - about 20 seconds.