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TIL that South Africa is the only country in the world to independently develop nuclear weapons and then give them up: 6 finished warheads were dismantled in 1989.

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oB0Vr TIL the world's oldest human-made gold treasure dates back to the period between 4,500 BC and 4,000 BC is found in Varna, Bulgaria.
R7ABj TIL Alexander Hamilton, a Scottish politician, had such a strong interest in Ancient Egyptian mummies that he arranged for his own body to be mummified and placed in a sarcophagus after his death.
r70o TIL in 2009 a man was arrested for child pornography in an airport while carrying a dvd of porn star Lupe Fuentes. When she found out, she immediately flew to the courtroom to prove she was over 18.
NXk4Q TIL that Charles Thacker, designer of the 1973 Xerox Alto (the first computer with a graphical interface and mouse), also worked on early tablet concepts decades before Apple. When the iPad succeeded in 2010, his wife quipped, “Well, dear, you were 10 years ahead of your time again.”
PYvlL TIL Jurassic Park was meant to use stop motion instead of CGI, but two artists worked on a CGI T-Rex in secret, and once they finished it, they quietly put a video of it on screen when Kathleen Kennedy visited their office. the video convinced Kennedy, Spielberg, and the rest of the team to use CGI.