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TIL that Leo Fender , the inventer of Fender Guitars never knew how to play the guitar

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78NOx TIL Canada's nuclear reactors (CANDU) are designed to use decommissioned nuclear weapons as fuel and can be refueled while running at full power. They're considered among the safest and the most cost effective reactors in the world.
86ob TIL Anatoli Bugorski, a Russian scientist, survived being hit directly in the face by a particle accelerator beam.
kJka7 TIL that there is a genetic mutation which vastly reduces armpit odor. A mutation disabling the “ABCC11” gene changes the chemical structure of armpit sweat, inhibiting the action of skin bacteria. Notably, this mutation is mostly found in East Asian populations
VBX4p TIL an Indianapolis fertility doctor ultimately inseminated nearly 100 women (to date) between the late 70s / early 80s with his own sperm unbeknownst to them, and most of the families live within 25 miles of each other
E18Dx TIL: 2001 A SPACE ODYSSEY was released before we landed on the moon, and even before the first color pictures of Earth even existed.