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TIL that during the Three Mile Island incident, the government considered sending in terminally ill cancer patients to release a manual valve in the reactor

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xVeoB TIL the Empire State building in New York stands on the site of the original Astoria hotel, which was built and owned by John Jacob Astor IV. Astor was of the richest men alive in his time, and left behind an estate of $87 million upon his death in 1912. Also, he died on the Titanic.
mxM TIL studies have shown that the achievement gap between blacks and whites on many standardized tests disappears when the subjects are told that the tests do not measure intelligence or IQ.
5YdBB TIL shepherds in Gascony, France traditionally wore stilts called tchangues (“big legs”) that allowed them to walk rapidly on marshy ground.
5VBvp TIL camels can drink 1 litre of water per second.
QJeaL TIL the majority of mammal fossils are male. Some think because they more wide-ranging, reckless and foolhardy, e.g. in the case of mammoths, “they were more likely to do silly things, like die in tar pits.”