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TIL the Los Alamos National Laboratory has a guide for what to do if you come across a nuclear-powered cardiac pacemaker [PDF]

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Egm5W TIL the average American will consume nearly 3,000 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches in their lifetime; if those sandwiches were stacked on top of each other, they’d form a delicious, precarious tower taller than the Statue of Liberty
DQo1r TIL: The last surviving widow of the American Civil War passed away in 2021. In 1936, 17 year old Helen Jackson secretly married 93 year old Civil War veteran James Bolin. He passed away just three years later. Helen would live to the age of 101.
gWd9 TIL The man who invented Tang also invented Cool Whip, Pop Rocks, quick setting Jello
X015r TIL of a plane who made a forced landing on a Greenland ice cap in Nov. 1942. In attempting their rescue, 6 more planes either also stranded or crashed and it would take the survivors 5 and a half months of sheltering on the glacier until they were all rescued.
DQBvD TIL that most people "talk" to themselves in their head and hear their own voice, and some people hear their voice regardless of whether they want it or not.