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TIL about Posthumous Reproduction where you can “harvest” sperm from a dead person in order to reproduce

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R578a TIL the the Scion car company used to endorse extreme metal bands and held a yearly metal festival.
Oo1ge TIL Mushrooms are the only non-animal food with Vitamin D and their vitamin D levels can be increased by placing them in the sun, just like humans
lo9Pr TIL Mother Teresa encouraged members of her order to secretly baptise dying patients, without regard to the individual's religion. A former member of the MOC, writes that "Sisters were to ask each person in danger whether they want a 'ticket to heaven' to lure them for consent and then baptize them.
LQ17Z TIL that most American radio stations start with a W or K after a 1912 convention that chose to give call signs to stations East of the TX/NM border (W) or West (K)
P1bdJ TIL that the Norden Bombsight used by US Bomber aircraft in WWII cost $1.1 billion to research and produce, about half as much as the Manhattan Project and over a quarter of the cost of all B-17 bombers manufactured. While successfully precise in Stateside testing it was far less accurate in combat.