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TIL Consumption of Alcohol Helps People Decontaminate themselves from Radiation.

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ZOmY TIL Less well-known to foreigners, Camilo Cienfuegos is revered in Cuba as a hero of the Revolution, with monuments, memorials, and an annual celebration in his honour, where school children throughout Cuba throw flowers into the sea. He went missing in mysterious circumstances in 1959.
DQ5yg TIL that Hitler's beard, Eva Braun, made two suicide attempts in the years before she finally collected her Darwin Award in the Führerbunker.
W7gDY TIL, Weather forecasters tend to exaggerate the chance of rain because if it rains when they said it wouldn't, people get angry, but if it doesn't rain when they said it would, they are happy. This is known as "wet bias."
0wn1 TIL that a 9 year old Karl Rove was beaten up by a neighborhood girl and given a bloody nose for putting a Nixon sticker on his bicycle.
ANp7o TIL Lionel Messi is reportedly being given a percentage ownership stake in Inter Miami as part of his playing contract.