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TIL Travelers with a Buddha tattoo will be immediately deported if seen in Sri Lanka.

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Wpw8 TIL A banana is a unit of radioactive exposure and that a truckload of bananas is able to set off a false alarm at U.S. ports sensing for smuggled radioactive material
wrrM TIL of Louis Slotin, a scientist who died while working on the Manhattan Project. He accidentally dropped a hemisphere of beryllium on a plutonium core; witnesses saw glowing blue light and felt a heat wave. He died nine days later. The plutonium core was later nicknamed the “demon core”.
JxkQ TIL that Cerberus, the three headed dog which guards the entrance to the underworld, translates pretty much as ‘Spot’, a common dog name.
Eeoo TIL: A new ‘Bionic’ lens can give people eyesight up to three times better than 20/20.
MepvA TIL that currently only two nations operate naval vessels classed as "cruisers": the United States and Russia, and in both cases the vessels are primarily armed with guided missiles.