In today's episode:

TIL a scientist hired his family to refine radium in their basement for 20 years, with the waste buried in the backyard. The property was declared a Superfund site and cost $70M to clean up. His body was exhumed for testing and had the largest amount of radioactive material ever detected in a human. https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/12b11u4

TIL A 30 year-old woman from New Zealand died in 2013 due to cardiac arrhythmia that was linked to her habit of drinking up to 2.6 gallons of Coca-Cola daily. https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/12b5099

TIL the average desk-bound employee spends 28 per cent of their professional lives reading and responding to e-mails https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/12b24kx

TIL that, in 2022, a man died in a single vehicle car accident when the knife he was using to mix protein powder while driving was propelled into his neck by the force of his deployed air bag. https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/12bfai8

TIL - The European polecat occasionally cripples its prey by piercing its brains with its teeth and stores it, still living, in its burrow for future consumption. https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/12b6kel