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TIL: 4% of the sand on Normandy beach is made up of shrapnel that has broken down.

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KbeJ TIL that while in space astronauts sometimes see random flashes of light caused by cosmic rays hitting the optic nerve. We don’t see it on earth because the magnetosphere protects us from the rays.
XDaj TIL we have a photograph from the surface of Saturn’s moon, Titan
g4Pb TIL: On his second day in office, President Jimmy Carter pardoned all evaders of the Vietnam War drafts.
WmEN TIL a US born nun was killed in Brazil for speaking out about the effect agriculture was having on deforestation of rainforests.
E1lnW TIL most piranha attacts to humans result in minor injuries, typically in the feet or hands, and only in exceptional situations are fatal