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TIL atomic bomb testing has changed our biology

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OWQY TIL That in 1957, South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond spoke for a record 24 hours 18 minutes to filibuster the passage of a civil rights bill. He took steam baths daily to dehydrate his body so he would not have to stop speaking to use the bathroom.
awrnL TIL That there is a monument in Russia dedicated to lab mice who's lives have been sacrificed to further science: The Monument to the Laboratory Mouse
x60rD TIL that a 39 mile-long sausage was created in Romania in 2014
5YElQ TIL that water has joined gold, oil and other commodities that are traded on Wall Street as worries about the uncertainty of its availability in the future rises.
4k0PJ TIL that minors who get married in the U.S. can't file for divorce without parental consent