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TIL the mayor of Nashville visited a survivor of the Antioch Waffle House Shooting, Sharita Henderson, and when asked if she needed anything, Ms. Henderson asked the mayor to fill the potholes on I-440.

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neJgP TIL A radioactive energy drink called "Radithor" was sold in the US market for a decade in the 1920s. Radium 226 and 228 isotopes we’re used, and the expensive product claimed to cure impotence, among other ills. Some of the more prominent users had to be buried in lead coffins.
PMMV TIL that there is an apparatus and method for remotely monitoring and altering brain waves; in addition to mind control, it is capable of making people hear voices, smell odors, see images, feel sensations, experience emotions imposed by someone else.
7rm5P TIL that black tea and green tea come from the same plant. The only difference is black tea is fermented.
WkYyB TIL there was a type of cave goat that were cold blooded, had front facing eyes like a primate unlike other herbivores, and their bone growth was more similar to a crocodile than any other mammal. It went extinct about 5,000 years ago.
699RZ TIL Hugo Broch, a Luftwaffe pilot credited with 81 victories in 324 missions, all on the Eastern Front, is 100 years old and still alive.