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TIL that Lake Michigan has a Triangle similar to the Bermuda Triangle

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65EJ TIL - Kentucky Homeland Security thinks God is Vital to State Security and you can be fined and put in jail for up to 12 months if you do not acknowledge that God protects us from terrorism
lxkA TIL a radioactive 1950s science kit for kids “came with four different types of uranium ore, a geiger counter, a miniature cloud chamber, an electroscope, a spinthariscope and an educational comic book called ‘Learn How Dagwood Splits the Atom!’”
Rxnl TIL the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier has detoriated severely since it was built in 1921. A private citizen paid for a replacement flawless marble slab cut from the same quarry used for the original. The government rejected the replacement and it has sat over a decade unused.
7repr TIL ships that were constructed before 1945 are the primary source of steel that is not contaminated with radioactive nuclides. The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki along with nuclear tests and disasters have polluted the atmospheric air that is being used for the steel production.
X0LgE TIL Jacob Miller, survived for more than 3 decades with a bullet in his head. He was hit in the U.S. Civil War in 1863, and 31 years later two pieces of lead came out of his head on their own.