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TIL that during the Fukushima nuclear disaster, more than 200 retirees volunteered to replace younger workers at the facility. The volunteer group figures they have less than 20 years to live and will be dead before any radiation induced cancer develops.

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OGVra TIL about Leucochloridium or “Zombie Snail”, a parasite that infects a snail's eye stalks, making them grow bigger & pulsate. This attracts birds that eat the snail, transmitting the parasite to the bird's digestive system, where it reproduces & infects more snails.
YrxZ TIL Comedian Tom Green is also known as a Freestyle Rapper Known as “TG”
1XNW TIL a hacker was able to recreate the fingerprint of the German Defense Minister from a photograph. This is the same hacker who defeated Apple’s thumbprint verification within 24 hours of the release of the iPhone 5S.
yQPla TIL the University of Iowa, at the end of the first quarter of every home football game, turns and acknowledges the critically ill children watching the game from the hospital suites overlooking the stadium across the street.
exA4 TIL that when you encounter some information for the first time and then begin to notice it everywhere, you’re experiencing the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon