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TIL - You would get a larger dose of radiation from eating a bag of potato chips every day than you would if you lived next to a nuclear power plant.

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rD1e TIL of psychologist David T Lykken’s proposal that having kids should be licensed, and that being unmarried, financially unstable, and having poor health were factors against being given permission to breed.
epm1D TIL Galileo Galilei dismissed the notion that the moon influences the tides as “childish” and “occult.” Instead he argued that tides are a kind of sloshing due to the motion of the earth.
ZBLp TIL that patients in US treated by foreign doctors are less likely to die than those treated by their American-trained colleagues.
lo8lN TIL that cheese can cost three times more in Canada then in the U.S.
DQ1PD TIL a man named John Darwin faked his death at sea for life insurance money and hid next door to his family home whilst he was presumed dead