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TIL gamma rays are used to disinfect food

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ADbRa TIL the US Air Force had a special forces unit of weather men.
W0VA TIL that America is the only developed country on earth where the current generation is less educated than the previous generation
dB9r TIL that in 1970s, people in Cambodia were killed for being academics or for merely wearing eyeglasses.
KO0lE TIL of the sinking of the cruise ship MTS Oceanos. Captain and crew where among the first to leave and left all passengers on board to their destiny. Entertainment staff took control and successfully evacuated and saved everyone on board.
VMNd8 TIL that the uranium used in the Nagasaki and Hiroshima bombings were mined from Katanga province, Congo.