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TIL that fingernails grow 3 times faster than toenails

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YoVZ TIL that a Texas school district is so small that one person “has been the superintendent, the principal, the third-to-sixth-grade teacher, the ESL instructor, the special-ed teacher, the repairman, the contractor”. Divine, Texas (about 20 students)’s school bus is a used white limousine.
4kpLa TIL that in 1950, scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, synthesized a highly radioactive element by bombarding curium-242 with alpha particles. They named this new element "Californium" and its discovery was initially kept classified due to its potential military uses.
b9Dr7 TIL that Abraham Lincoln was almost in a saber duel with James Shield on September 22, 1842 until John J. Hardin and Dr. R.W. English ceased the hostilities between the two.
LkeAQ TIL that the professional wrestler Kane is the Mayor of Knox County, Tennessee
oLrW TIL that you shouldn’t store a sleeping bag in the small stuff sack that comes with it, as it ruins the insulation.