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TIL WWII shipwrecks are an important source of "low background steel" (i.e. steel produced before the introduction of nuclear weapons) required to produced devices sensitive to radioactivity.

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yVewV TIL Composer Richard Wagner lived in Villa Wesendonck, an elegant neoclassical mansion in Zurich. Wagner's house later became the Rietberg Museum, the only gallery in Switzerland to concentrate on non-European cultures
rQMy TIL in 1981, a tenant was evicted in Germany after spreading Surströmming (fermented Baltic Sea herrring) brine in the stairway. The landlord was taken to court, where he brought a can of Surströmming as evidence. After being opened, the court unanimously ruled in his favor because of the smell.
R58Qj TIL there was a Baywatch spin-off show called "Baywatch Nights", starring David Hasselhoff. Intended to be a grounded procedural crime show, it pivoted in its 2nd season to being a full-on paranormal show with monsters, ghosts, mummies, vampires, parallel universes, and time travel a la The X-Files.
X00eX TIL the last monolingual Irish speaker died in 1998
P0kL TIL that gay and bisexual men are only 2% of the U.S. population, but account for 63% of new HIV infections