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TIL there are “nuclear divers”, or people who dive into nuclear power plant cooling systems to perform maintenance on them.

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16Wd4 TIL that the world record for most number of monogamous marriages is held by Glynn Wolfe - he married 31 times (with one marriage being annulled) and had approximately 19 children.
Pjbn TIL the populations of the United Arab Emirates and Qatar are 26.3% and 26.8% female, respectively.
696jW TIL that parasitic isopods change sex like the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park but in reverse.
yVOXJ TIL it's possible to buy real human bones online
5pKp TIL sea level rise is attributed to ice melting on land, not ice melting on the sea. Like a glass of water with ice; the volume doesn’t change when it melts, so we need to beware of Greenland and Antarctica’s ice melting.