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TIL in 1957 five US military personnel agreed to stand directly under a nuclear detonation

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pw8b TIL that corpse roads run all through England. These are old roads that long ago were used only for transporting corpses; they have strange legends surrounding them.
XEmRk TIL that in Desert Storm in order to avoid trench warfare, the US put plows on Bradleys which drove along and filled 70 miles of defensive trenches obliterating thousands of Iraqi soldiers by burying them alive. Not a single American was killed during the attack.
VBkYp TIL about the Scully effect, where women were inspired to take up STEM when they saw Scully on the X files; as a smart, skeptical woman and not a sidekick
w1DP TIL that human feces is not made primarily of undigested plant material or fiber, as commonly thought. Bacteria make up to 60% of the dry mass of human feces.
0wB0R TIL that Alaska has the highest rate of serial killings at just over 7 per 100,000 people, while California has the highest number of serial killings overall, totaling 1,628 people.