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TIL in 2010 a professor went on a diet consisting mainly of Twinkies to prove weight loss was from calorie deficit, not nutrition.

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aw0JJ TIL during the manhattan project Albert Stevens was injected with plutonium without his knowledge or explicit consent. He survived over 20 years, accumulating a total radiation dose of 64 Sv - the highest known in any human being.
XErPP TIL that MRI is actually NMRI - Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Nuclear is dropped because people would be less likely to trust the technology.
BrpXx TIL that Pedro López - one of the most prolific serial killers in history, with between 100 and 300 victims - was released from prison in 1998 after being declared "sane." His current whereabouts are unknown.
neV7 TIL on September 6, 1949, a mentally disturbed WWII vet killed 13 of his neighbors and injured 3 more in what is considered the first single-episode mass murder in US history. When he died in 2009, his last words were “I’d have killed a thousand if I had enough bullets.”
Qnnp TIL Winston Churchill once said “You can always count on the Americans to do the right thing—after they have tried everything else.”