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TIL the inventor of Starlite, a material that can withstand the heat from a nuclear flash, never revealed the composition until his death.

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a8GV9 TIL about Alice de Janzé. She was a member of the infamous “Happy Valley Set” of white settlers in colonial Kenya. When one of her lovers tried to leave her, she shot him in the chest before shooting herself. They both survived and were married 5 years later.
JMVl TIL that after a massive power outage in Los Angeles, many residents called 911 and reported seeing strange clouds overhead - the Milky Way
Y7JGP TIL Samoa skipped December 31, 2011
wLkrJ TIL that Mad Men's Jon Hamm got his fraternity shut down by torturing a pledge's genitals with fire and a hammer during a hazing incident for not remembering to call him MC Hammer.
VM9gQ TIL Bhangmeter is the device used to measure yield of nuclear weapon.It is named after the hindi word for cannabis as a joke that only a person on drugs would believe the bhangmeter to work properly.