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TIL President Jimmy Carter was lowered into a nuclear reactor during a partial meltdown to disassemble the reactor. He could only stay in the reactor for seconds at a time because of radiation exposure.

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d8rE TIL the RZA interrupted several rappers chanting “f**k the police” on stage to tell the audience they needed to respect and appreciate them.
mybE TIL the biblical Book of Judges tells a story in which a fat king is stabbed, the sword gets stuck in his fat, and the guards outside don’t check on him because they think he’s taking a shit.
Y7eBP TIL: The freedom towers height is in dedication to America's declaration of independence
JWxQ TIL that when Nike was shooting their commercial in Kenya using Samburu tribesmen, one of them was supposed to say “Just do it” in native Maa, but instead he said, “I don’t want these. Give me big shoes.” Nike responded with: “we thought nobody in America would know what he said.”
XEWgk TIL the longest-running video game series is, by far: The Oregon Trail. First published in 1971 by the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium, it beats out the next series (Pac-Man) by almost a decade.