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TIL about a man eating tiger that killed 436 people in Nepal in the final years of the 19th century.

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5RjB TIL that pilots and flight crews are federally classified by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) as “radiation workers” and receive higher doses of radiation than all other US radiation-exposed workers.
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ojYK TIL that the media can legally lie in the United States, determined by a case in 2003.
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