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

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wLwj6 TIL that the Church of Satan doesn’t believe in the existence of Satan
VMgK0 TIL That the experimental T-13 grenade of World War II was designed with a size, weight and shape similar to a baseball, thus making it easy for young American men to properly throw the grenade with both accuracy and distance.
KO16J TIL that Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), still utilized today, allows for improvements in depression in 70-90% of the patients treated with it, much higher than that of psychopharmacology.
MeGNm TIL that in 1990, a pilot was partially sucked out of his plane when the windscreen failed. The cabin crew couldn't pull him back in so he dangled outside the plane for 20 minutes until the copilot landed the plane. The pilot made a full recovery.
g5dW TIL that mushrooms are more closely related to humans than they are to plants