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TIL that tobacco plants easily absorb radioactive particles, causing radioactive polonium settling down in the lungs directly. This can be avoided, but tobacco industry consider washing “too expensive”

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OG7be TIL that up until 2015, Dahala Khagrabari was the world’s only 3rd-order enclave. It was a piece of land belonging to India inside a piece of Bangladesh, inside a piece of India, inside Bangladesh
JY54 TIL you have a 1 in 16 chance of being a victim of violent crime in East St. Louis
DQAxr TIL That Chiropractic was invented by a Canadian in 1895 named D.D. Palmer who believed that a doctor who died 50 years prior gave him the knowledge of this practice during a spiritualist camp.
78lyX TIL that the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake was so powerful that it generated “seiches” (standing waves in enclosed bodies of water) of up to 1.5 meters to form as far away as Sognefjorden, Norway.
EgMVw TIL The world’s largest grand piano was built by a 15-year-old in New Zealand.