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TIL pacemakers that are nuclear powered exist, and some people still have them today

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e0XbD TIL about the six degrees of separation. It is the idea that all people on average are six social connections away from each other. As a result, a chain of a friend of a friend statement can be made to connect any two people in a maximum of six steps. It is also known as the six handshakes
Pn9O TIL that James Woods reported and identified 2 of the 9/11 terrorists a month before the event when they performed a practice run.
Bg76D TIL Kermit & Theodore Roosevelt Jr. were the first westerners to shoot a giant panda.
egW4 TIL there is a large blobby mass called the ‘North Carolina Sewer Monster’ found to be living in the sewers of Raleigh, North Carolina. No one knows exactly what it is composed of and it reacts to light and heat by pulsating and retracting.
R50Z1 TIL that English speakers proposed abbreviating Coordinated Universal Time as CUT. French speakers proposed abbreviating it as TUC (for "temps universel coordonné"). Neither side got what they wanted, as the official abbreviation is "UTC".