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TIL that airline workers are classified as radiation workers (like people in nuclear power plants), because of how much exposure they get due to cosmic radiation making it through the thinner atmosphere while flying.

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ANaOo TIL that in the first edition of the Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory novel, The Oompa Loompas were Black pygmies imported from "the deepest and darkest part of the African jungle,"
p8oG TIL that when you type mistakes you unconsciously use slightly less pressure than when you are typing correct strokes.
P1A1O TIL Yogyakarta is a special administrative region in Indonesia co-ruled by a Sultan and a Duke within the Indonesian Republic
5bN9 TIL there is a light bulb in California that has been almost continuously burning since 1901, and has been cited as evidence of planned obsolescence in modern technology.
mxo9p TIL that when the Rolling Stones were forced to make another single to fulfill their contract, they recorded a vulgar song known as "Cocksucker Blues." In retaliation, their former label released an album of the band's greatest hits - despite the Stone's renunciation, it hit top 10 on UK charts