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TIL that scavengers won’t eat dead meth users

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W7Lr4 TIL the Port Chicago disaster accounted for 15% of all African American casualties in World War II
LkXy9 TIL a committee of five men was originally organised by Congress to draft the Declaration of Independence. However none of the senior members wanted the tedious burden of actually writing it. The task was foisted on junior member Thomas Jefferson who didn't want the job either.
V670 TIL that Shakira was rejected from the school choir because her music teacher said that she sounded “like a goat.”
VB18 TIL that David Vetter lived his whole 12 years in sterile “bubble”. He was “outside” less than 10 second after being removed from his mother’s womb. He never touched any human.
4bAb TIL all steel produced after 1945 is contaminated with background radiation because of the use of nuclear weapons. Such steel is unusable for many scientific and medical applications and steel made before 1945, often taken from sunken battleships, must be used instead.