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TIL the United States has purchased thousands of weapons’ worth of uranium from decommissioned Soviet nuclear weapons. It is estimated that one in ten lightbulbs in the US are powered by nuclear fuel removed from weapons formerly pointed at the US and its allies.

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vAYx TIL Cadbury won a 1909 libel suit against a publication for mentioning their delay in ceasing cacao purchase from countries with slave labor. The jury awarded one-fourth of a penny.
yQx1v TIL the internet has weight
W7NGL TIL the evolutionary leap from egg laying to placental birth may have been helped by DNA from an ancient retrovirus, which coded for a protein allowing cells around the placenta to fuse, blocking the exchange of maternal-fetal blood and preventing the mother’s immune system from harming the fetus.
wL96o TIL the gift shop inside the 45-foot-high steel and concrete Brontosaur at the world famous Cabazon Dinosaur roadside attraction in Cabazon, California now features a creationist museum and sells merchandise that promotes young earth creationism after it was sold to the current owners.
8a7ya TIL Mohammad Ali successfully talked a suicidal person threatening to jump off a ledge out of going through with it by saying, “you’re my brother! I love you and I wouldn't lie to you ... I want to help you” to this complete stranger in 1981.