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TIL the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission estimates there are around 150,000 licenses for radioactive sources and around 1 source per day is either lost or stolen.

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RXD1 TIL that states such as Alabama and South Carolina still had laws preventing interracial marriage until 2000, where they were changed with 40% of each state opposing the change
XER8Q TIL that although they failed to find missing pilot Steve Fossett for years, in the days following his disappearance, they DID find EIGHT other previously unidentified crash sites.
YBwP TIL that Ethiopia was the only African country that was never colonized
M7JEb TIL In 2009, two French and British nuclear ballistic missile submarines collided by chance in the Atlantic Ocean. They were moving so slowly that they couldn't have detected each other just a few feet apart.
69MOw TIL there is a 14 story children's courthouse in Miami