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TIL Pound town is a town in Wisconsin

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E1a6p TIL Egyptian Mohammed M. Atalla is acknowledged as the inventor of the MOSFET, the most widely manufactured device in history, and one of the most important inventions in electronics.
BgQKb TIL A new study suggests that men and women are 14 percent more likely to die on their birthday than any other day of the year. This effect was strongest in people aged 60 and older, who were up to 18 percent more likely to die on their birthday.
jNdwX TIL that sunflowers can clean up radioactive waste. Certain radioactive isotopes are similar to the nutrients sunflowers normally need, so as they grow, they take up radiation out of the soil.
d8xbj TIL that on the sign to Aushiwitz "Arbeit macht frei" (work sets you free) the B is upside down, this was done by the Jewish prsioners there as an act of defiance.
E0W7 TIL Kim Jong-il, according to North Korean media, didn’t need to urinate or defecate. Just one of many amazing traits he reportedly had.