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TIL the CEO of AMD (Lisa Su) is the cousin of Nvidia CEO and Co-Founder (Jensen Huang).

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gblD TIL that airline workers are classified as radiation workers (like people in nuclear power plants), because of how much exposure they get due to cosmic radiation making it through the thinner atmosphere while flying.
ANZDa TIL there was once a project to build a canal across Florida to shorten the route between the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico. It was about half completed when President Nixon cancelled it for environmental reasons.
LkVE0 TIL Francis J. Falejczyk was the first man to breathe oxygenated fluid through his lungs. Eventually after further testing, he presented the information to a crowd of people, one of which was James Cameron. Giving James the idea for the 1989 movie, The Abyss.
Lkaop TIL that falling bullets can reach a terminal velocity 3x faster than the speed needed to penetrate the skull AND falling bullets are > 5x as lethal as non-falling bullets.
DQokj TIL that Alaska congressman Mike Gravel spoke only French until the age of seven