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TIL the NHL was started because five of the six team owners in the National Hockey Association didn’t like the sixth guy and wanted to start a league without him.

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7repr TIL ships that were constructed before 1945 are the primary source of steel that is not contaminated with radioactive nuclides. The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki along with nuclear tests and disasters have polluted the atmospheric air that is being used for the steel production.