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TIL atomic bomb testing has changed our biology
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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.
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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
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TIL that a 39 mile-long sausage was created in Romania in 2014
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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.
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TIL that minors who get married in the U.S. can't file for divorce without parental consent