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TIL that the theme song for Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe is an 80's punk rock song by the band Faith No More

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xLjD TIL Albert Stevens was injected with plutonium without his knowledge or explicit consent in 1945. He survived over 20 years, accumulating a total radiation dose of 64 Sv - the highest known in any human being.
W7yeL TIL that some butterflies drink tears to survive
9YWBQ TIL that magician Harry Houdini took a year off from his performance career during WWI to promote the war effort including teaching soldiers how to get out of handcuffs.
QJXXX TIL: Armin T. Wegner who resisted both the Armenian Genocide & the Holocaust. In 1915, he took hundreds of photos of the persecuted Armenians and was subsequently arrested. In 1933, he wrote a letter to Hitler denouncing the persecution of Jews, and was then sent to a concentration camp.