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TIL a poll once included the question "Have you ever been decapitated?" 4% of Americans answered yes.

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Oo4Q4 TIL the US Military is developing Bomb Sniffing Cyborg Locusts. Since 2016, Researchers at Washington University have attempted to implant locusts with cybernetic enhancements that allow them to be remotely piloted, use their antennae to detect explosives, and wirelessly relay that information back.
mx40M TIL that U.S. Route 50's endpoints in Ocean City, MD and West Sacramento, CA both have official road signs denoting that the other city is 3,073 miles away
E1DNP TIL The USS Pennsylvania has been in commission since 1989 and has been powered by a single piece of uranium the size of a fist ever since.
QJLn9 TIL that there is a movement in journalism to move away from “if it bleeds it leads”. In the past, crises and conflicts were reported as-is, but journalists in this movement are also reporting on options, solutions, and ways in which things could and are getting better.
m1LOP TIL the largest known arthropod, Jaekelopterus, was 8 feet long—about the same length as an average adult female American alligator