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TIL the Irish Crown Jewels were stolen in 1907 and have never been found.

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RJoa TIL of the ‘Radium Girls’ who worked in a factory where they worked with luminescent radium. Not knowing it was dangerous, they oftenpainted it on their lips and teeth for fun. They began to develop radium necrosis, causing their jaws to rot and develop disfiguring tumors, and eventually died.
j6NJn TIL The World's Smallest Reptile was Recently Discovered and reported in 2021. Male's genitals are nearly 20% of the body length.
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