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TIL the US Navy had Nuclear Battleship shells

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5Y0M9 TIL that In Japan, people do not use their signature on documents, but use their personal stamps called “Hanko” or “Inkan”.
E1jVW Today I learned you shouldn't give Asprin to children and teenagers after chickenpox or the flu, it can cause or exacerbate Reye's syndrome
4k6mR TIL The majority of explosives tested on Mythbusters were provided for free by bomb squads. The bomb squads found value in treating the experiments as training exercises.
VQaZ TIL that James Earl Jones once used the handle “Darth Vader” while travelling across the country and spoke, in character, to truck drivers on the CB radio. Apparently, the drivers would really freak out so he stopped doing it.
oZMR TIL you absorb roughly half the protein from an egg if you eat it raw vs cooking it. In other words, Rocky would have been better off frying his eggs as opposed to drinking them raw.