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TIL South Africa developed 6 nuclear bombs but dismantled all of them in the early 90s

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J798 TIL EVE Online is the only MMO that features an officially recognised player-elected council that is flown twice a year to Reykjavik to meet with the game developers to discuss the ideas and concerns of the player base.
x68L5 TIL about Garibaldi, an Italian general who led 1,000 volunteers in the unification of Italy, outnumbered 90 to 1 and commanding just a few stolen tugboats, he managed to land in Sicily, incite the people there to revolt and ultimately destroyed the state of Two Sicilies in less than 2 years.
0dOLv TIL that many Italian recipes with eggs, like Bismarck pizza, took the name from the German Chancellor because during a public speech he said it would take "blood and iron" to effect change but the Italian crowd mistranslated his words as "blood and eggs". Bismarck was known for his fondness of eggs
e0Q8J TIL that since dolphins breathe manually, they cannot enter 'deep sleep' like humans. Therefore, dolphins only allow one half of their brains to sleep at a time, and never lose consciousness.
Brg4y TIL that ageists age worse