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TIL After the collapse of the Soviet Union; over 50% of the nuclear fuel used in America reactors from 1993-2013 came from demilitarized Soviet-era nukes in Russia. The program was called "Megatons to Megawatts" and over 20,000+ warheads were purchased

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R5NE9 TIL The eerie "Number Stations" are shortwave radio stations that broadcast cryptic messages, often consisting of strings of numbers or coded words. These stations have been transmitting since the Cold War era and continue to baffle listeners as their purpose and intended audience remain unknown.
ADndx TIL about “crazy ants” that often form colonies within electrical equipment and can cause problems in all kinds of electrical systems similar to termites in wood.
lorxV TIL Pope John XII died on 14 May 964; one story relates that he died of a paralytic stroke suffered while having sex with a woman named Stefanetta. He may have died instead when the woman's husband defenestrated John or beat him to death with a hammer during the act.
X5lD TIL it’s a bad idea to use a banana for scale when taking pictures of a beehive, since the alarm pheromone to alert bees to defend their hive smells like bananas
OBnL TIL that in the summer of 1995, the Nickelodeon show Rugrats surpassed reruns of even Seinfeld and Frasier to become the most watched show among adult males aged 18-31