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TIL that Polonium-210 in cigarettes is one of the only legal sources of internal alpha radiation exposure to humans.

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a8G9b TIL that in 2012, a crucified Jesus statue in India started dripping water from it's feet. Hundreds of believers flocked to the dripping cross, collecting and consuming the “holy” water. It was later revealed that the source of the water was a clogged toilet from a nearby washroom.
bDYj TIL on Dec 25th (Christmas), a town in Peru celebrates ‘Takanakuy’. Men, women and children settle grudges from the past year with a fist fight in the town center. After the fight, fighters will drink alcohol to numb the pain and bring in the New Year.
wdlY TIL that one day in 1880, three men from Arkansas, searching for a wildcat, stumbled on a mysterious cave whose inside was covered in a radiant blue color. The three men immediately fell ill and were covered in sores after leaving the cave. They had discovered the first radium mine in America.
8e9VG TIL Masi Oka, who played Hiro Nakamura in the TV show Heroes, founded the developer that made the game Outer Wilds.
nWgx9 TIL Colloquially, instead of a person from Connecticut is called a Connecticuter, the word Nutmegger is used