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TIL The Simpsons depiction of Homer’s job qualifications are correct. You only need a High School diploma to operate a nuclear reactor.

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Yppyr TIL in 2009 Airmen Colton Read went in for gallbladder surgery and woke up with both legs amputated. Military doctors punctured his aorta and waited 8.5 hours to get him proper medical care. Read isn't legally allowed to sue for damages.
pRy8 TIL there exists a large online community of ‘scambaiters’: individuals who are devoted to tricking Nigerian 419 scammers into performing hilarious and often humiliating challenges.
l7bd7 TIL Spermine can help Alzheimer's patient
ygRJ TIL that when Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys died, he wished for a burial at sea. Only veterans of the US Navy and Coast Guard are allowed a burial at sea without being cremated, but President Reagan directly intervened and allowed Dennis to be buried at sea.
bNwQ TIL that Jackie Kennedy’s Pink Chanel suit won’t be publicly displayed until at least 2103 and is kept in a secret location in which “The temperature hovers between 65 and 68 °F (18 and 20 °C) degrees; the humidity is 40 percent; the air is changed six times an hour.”