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TIL warning signs for our nuclear wastes today need symbols which can be understood by the future generations without the assumption that knowledge can be passed to them, and taking into consideration the possibility of human civilization crumbling away.

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KOyr9 TIL: The voice actor for Jar Jar Binks attempted suicide as a result of decades long harassment and death threats
J1XPQ TIL of Thomas(ine) Hall; an intersex person for whom a Jamestown Court in 1629 could not determine their sex, and thus ruled they were both and ordered them to dress in men's and women's clothing at all times.
AgVo TIL F. Scott Fitzgerald made Ernest Hemingway look at his penis to see if it was of average size because Fitzgerald’s (somewhat insane) wife Zelda said the size of his penis could, “never make any woman happy”.
Breb TIL the catholic church is spending money to lobby states to not over turn statute of limitation laws that are protecting priest who raped children .
6DL8 TIL that a German lieutenant, Friedrich Lengfeld, was killed by a land mine while attempting to rescue a wounded American soldier during the Battle of Hürtgen Forest in WWII. The Americans erected a monument in his honor; the only American monument placed in any German military cemetery.