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TIL you can pay to bathe in radioactive water in Japan
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TIL that a German dictionary producer hold an annual competition for best "Youth word" of the year (examples in comments)
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TIL The United States built 2,710 Liberty ships between 1941 and 1945, averaging 1.5 ships a day. Liberty Ships were quick simple cheap cargo ships needed for the mass transport of supplies. The ships were lightly armed but the SS Stephen Hopkins manged to fight a cargo raider to mutual destruction.
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TIL Gunslinger effect, The quantum physicist Niels Bohr deducted that in a gun dual, the person who draws first loses.
WP48
TIL that those tiny bright moving lines that appear in your field of vision when looking at a clear blue sky are actually your own white blood cells moving in the capillaries in front of your eyes’ retinas.
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TIL Metalocalypse predicted America 10 years ago