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TIL that CT body scans expose the patient to the same amount of radiation as that experienced within a mile and a half of the Hiroshima atomic bomb.

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mxE6P TIL An 8 months Pregnant Mary Turner protested the lynching of her innocent husband Hayes Turner by a White mob in 1918 and threatened to have them arrested. In order to “teach her a lesson”, she and her unborn child were brutally murdered. No one was charged.
XpY8 TIL that President James K. Polk’s last words were addressed to his wife, and he said, “I love you, Sarah. For all eternity, I love you.”
pR1G TIL Adjusting for inflation, Gone with the Wind from 1939 is the highest grossing movie of all time, not Avatar.
DWvV TIL it might rain liquid neon on Jupiter and snow diamonds on Neptune
BgyKW TIL that Ron Jeremy played the part of a parody Mario in a porno The Super Hornio Brothers, and that Nintendo bought and own the rights.