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TIL a scientist hired his family to refine radium in their basement for 20 years, with the waste buried in the backyard. The property was declared a Superfund site and cost $70M to clean up. His body was exhumed for testing and had the largest amount of radioactive material ever detected in a human.

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VMWbB TIL Stuart Little was a human child born to human parents who just looked exactly like a 2 inch tall mouse
WB5X TIL in the mid-1800s USA, “Native American” political parties (descendants from the original 13 colonies) grew popularity because many thought new Catholic, Irish and German immigrants “followed authoritarian leaders, imported crime and disease, stole native jobs, and practiced moral depravities.”
nW8xo TIL that the highly rated Simpsons Treehouse of Horror V segment The Shinning, was the work of showrunner David Mirkin. Matt Groening himself had never watched The Shining and didn’t understand most of the references.
Oo5lX TIL that for every one bird killed by wind turbines in the U.S. there are 4,000 to 17,000 killed by cats.
G485 TIL that, although Saint Patrick is famous for ridding Ireland of snakes, there was no evidence of there being snakes in Ireland in the first placs