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TIL that bananas can be used as a scale for radiation doses

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lp8G TIL that during the Battle of the Nile in 1798, the French naval officer Du Petit Thouars, having lost both legs and an arm, continued to command from a bucket filled with wheat, until he died.
WkQO9 TIL when Jimi Hendrix's mother died, his father refused to go to the funeral with his sons. Instead he gave them shots of whisky and told them that was how men should deal with loss.
bAka TIL that metals such as iron, copper, gold, and even uranium require running water to become concentrated into ore deposits through a process called ore genesis.
MMMB TIL male rape doesn’t exist as a criminal offense under UK law. When a male is raped, it is recorded as “non consensual buggery”.
xVxJo TIL: Martha Washington lived in "The White House", a plantation owned by her first husband, John Custis. The actual White House was finished and first occupied by President John Adams, and was first actually called the "White House" by Teddy Roosevelt.