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TIL more than a dozen vulnerable people were involuntarily injected with plutonium as part of the Manhattan Project, in order to learn the human biological reaction to radiation poisoning

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45Ro TIL there is a group of wolves in British Columbia aptly called the “sea wolves” that gets most of its food from the sea, and will even swim up to 8 miles to reach islands for food.
Y7kMd TIL that a re-design of the US $1 bill is prohibited by law
64DQ TIL there is a waterfall called The Devil’s Kettle, a mystery to scientists because the western half of the water flows into a pothole. However, every attempt to trace the path of this half of the river once the water has gone into the pothole has failed.
W7j6N TIL about the parable of Chesterton’s Fence: Do not remove a fence until you know why it was put up in the first place.
wo6D1 TIL the last EF5 tornado was more than 11 years ago, a record longest period without any confirmed EF5 tornado