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TIL that Nelson Mandela was not taken off the US terror list until 2008

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ADQ47 TIL about "It's not the fart that kills you, it's the smell," a quote by Norwegian rally car driver Petter Solberg. In Norwegian, fart means speed and smell means impact. The expression has become a meme.
QNVNk TIL that Buzz Aldrin was known among his fellow astronauts to be very difficult to work with, to the point that Neil Armstrong was offered the chance to replace Aldrin with someone else for the Apollo 11 Moon landing. Armstrong thought it over for a day before choosing to stick with Aldrin.
1a4BV TIL that dung beetles orientate themselves using the milky way, and that researchers tested this by putting little hats on them
rjwy TIL that Canada’s CANDU nuclear reactors are designed to use fuel from decommissioned nuclear weapons, can be refueled while running at full power, and are considered among the safest and most cost effective in the world.
XE0V6 TIL that in Tennessee in 2001, three 10 year old girls legally married three men in their mid-20s to early-30s. In 2006 a 27 year old woman legally wedded an 11 year old boy.