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TIL a baby born during war is more likely to be male than one born in peacetime

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Y7kVB TIL as part of Project Plowshare in the 1960's, the US government evaluated exploding 550 nuclear bombs across the Negev Desert to create an alternate canal to the Suez but was abandoned after a commission found that two dozen 2 megaton test detonations caused too much radiation
vW0R TIL Paz Dylan pranked the Grammy Museum when he snuck in and hung a series of informational wall display pieces featuring strange descriptions and photographs of himself eating tacos. Awarding himself song of the year, album of the year, and best new artist of 2013, they hung unnoticed for a month
Z8QND TIL female muscle stem cells are better than their male counterparts at regenerating lost muscle.
Jv8v TIL that Chinese security forces killed a large number of Uyghur dissidents in a July 2014 incident, 96 according to the Chinese and 2,000 according to the Uyghurs, and the Chinese government suppressed any independent reporting of it
R7Kg7 TIL Operation Condor was a US backed intelligence operation in South America to squash Soviet influence. More than 400,000 people were taken as prisoners and 60,000-80,000 were killed.