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TIL that peeling scotch tape in vacum generates enough x-ray to image a human finger

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XEDMQ TIL the Hyena is NOT a canine species. Instead it's part of the feliform suborder and thus closer to a cat-like species.
QJk9a TIL that in 2003, a 17-year-old transplant patient died after receiving organs with the wrong blood type. The error occurred because everyone assumed that someone else checked the blood type.
MegjA TIL Bismuth 209 was long thought to be a stable isotope until scientists discovered it actually has a half life of 19 quintillion years
xLZD TIL in 1974 canned food from a boat that sank in 1865 were tested on. There was no trace of microbial growth and the food was determined to be still safe to eat over 100 years later
WkkJd TIL In 1961 a B-52 bomber broke up in mid-air and dropped an armed nuclear bomb near the city of Goldsboro, NC. The bomb did not detonate but the recently declassified report said that "one simple, dynamo-technology, low voltage switch stood between the United States and a major catastrophe".