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TIL that the youngest person to ever achieve nuclear fusion was just 12-years-old.

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VBJD4 TIL that men had to fight for the right to be topless, as men's nipples were taboo like women's, and were only given the legal freedom to display their nipples in public in 1936.
wLOjo TIL in 1981, Radio Shack delivered a TRS-80 computer to Isaac Asimov's apartment. Although initially reluctant to use it, a Radio Shack employee came to set it up and tutor Asimov. This would end Asimov's exclusive use of a typewriter and he would eventually appear in Radio Shack's advertising.
j67gn TIL that in 2009, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi publicly called for the dissolution of Switzerland and for its territory to be divided among France, Italy and Germany
7rPYZ TIL there is a Banyon tree that is at least 250 years old, and takes up 3.5 acres of land.
mxKoy TIL that Owls actually have long legs and small body that is almost the same size as their Skull.