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TIL the longest one-syllable word in English is squirreled

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oByb7 TIL that ever since the first atomic bomb tests, the air is contaminated with enough radioactive particles to make modern steel useless in highly sensitive radiological instruments. Today, only steel made before these tests, such as from sunken warships, can be used to make such devices.
loo7B TIL of William Jenner who died in 1798 leaving an estate of £2m. His heirs fought over his estate until it was finally consumed by legal fees in 1915.
JYepB TIL 193km of the Suez Canal was dug partly by hand starting in 1859. Over the span of 10 years, around 1 million took part in the digging and it cost the lives of over 100 thousand Egyptian forced laborers.
P1EVG TIL about the "Seven Sutherland Sisters", a late 19th C. sideshow act who ended up making millions by using their famously long hair to market a line of quack medicine hair growth products.
4XY0a TIL that Mattel makes a bald Barbie doll named Ella to give (free of charge) to kids with cancer. It comes with wigs and other accessories.