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TIL after a city loses the Super Bowl, cardiovascular deaths and total deaths jump due to stress

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jNDvR TIL about ghost shift counterfeiting. Foreign contractors make more products than they're supposed to, and sell the rest as exact 'counterfeits' of the real products
mEJY TIL pinstripes were added to the New York Yankees uniform to make Babe Ruth appear slimmer.
loRmB TIL April 28th is International Workers' Memorial Day, an international day of remembrance for workers killed or injured in the workplace.
ne0JG TIL early WWII torpedoes were so unreliable that on one patrol, the USS Tinosa fired 15 torpedoes with only 2 exploding. Earlier, the USS Sargo fired 13 torpedoes with zero successes.
KY6ma TIL that there is still the radioactive part of a nuclear weapon buried in a farm field from a 1961 B52 airplane crash over North Carolina. You can clearly see the Army's easement on satellite photos 35º29'34"N 77º51'31.2"W .