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TIL that tumbleweeds spread radiation from old nuclear sites

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xMDB TIL Sir Winston Churchill is an Honorary citizen of the US, the first to be one non-posthumously
1aLKD TIL about Don Ritchie, "The Angel of the Gap", who, over the course of his life, successfully talked down over 160 people from jumping at a popular suicide spot near Sydney, Australia. For his efforts he was awarded the Order of Australia medal in 2006.
egZg TIL that in 2011 the head of the American College of Surgeons was forced to resign after he wrote a Valentine’s Day editorial touting the mood-enhancing effects of semen on women during unprotected sex, which was completely supported by the research he cited in said editorial.
PQDJ TIL Whites have now come to view anti-White bias as a bigger societal problem than anti-Black bias.
69gJY TIL that mushrooms are more closely related to humans than to plants