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TIL that following his death the Boston Red Sox player Ted Williams head was cryogenically frozen.

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k5mm TIL in 1999 the WHO found food irradiation so safe, they deemed “risk assessment” inappropriate because there was no risk (document p. 162; PDF p. 67)
AD9ba TIL of Cahkoia, a great Native American city near current day St Louis, which had a population in 1250 AD bigger than London
5YyjR TIL Victoria Pierro, the 6-year-old girl that saved her entire family from a burning house in Swampscott, MA. Victoria woke when the fan she used stopped running and she could see fire outside her window. She alerted her entire family, including her firefighter dad, saving them all from the fire.
BY0K TIL of Annie Dookhan, a chemist in a drug testing lab who tampered with 40,000+ samples resulting in thousands of innocent people being put in prison
xpG0 TIL it took 40 minutes for Supercomputer K to simulate just 1 second’s worth of 1% of the activity of the human brain.