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TIL the Casio F-91W is the most commonly used watch for bomb making

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W7obo TIL a scientist hired his family to refine radium in their basement for 20 years, with the waste buried in the backyard. The property was declared a Superfund site and cost $70M to clean up. His body was exhumed for testing and had the largest amount of radioactive material ever detected in a human.
OoWe1 TIL that in one egyptian myth, hathor the daughter of Ra, danced naked in front of Ra until he laughed to cure him of a fit of sulking.
lkYA TIL Canada wants complete disarmament of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons
6984Q TIL that in the last two seasons of FRIENDS, each cast member earned $1 million per episode. And now, they make $20 million per year each for reruns. All thanks to David Schwimmer, who encouraged the cast to negotiate together as a team.
QNEVM TIL penises on TV & in movies are almost all oversized prosthetics