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TIL the Grand Canyon Museum had three buckets of radioactive uranium ore on display for 18 years, and only found out when a kid was goofing around with a Geiger counter

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Em4o TIL that the person who designed Star Wars’ Darth Maul was instructed to make Maul “a vision from your worst nightmare”, and based the original design on an actual nightmare he had. When he presented the design to George Lucas, Lucas shuddered and told him “Give me your second worst nightmare”.
9YxbQ TIL: Project Gutenberg, the world's largest digital library of over 57,000 free public domain ebooks. Contains wide variety of the most historically important literary works.
MyMb TIL that it used to be compulsory for figure skaters to slowly trace precise, intricate shapes into the ice to be inspected by judges for scoring – hence the name ‘figure skating’.
D1yMj TIL that only two months after 9/11, on the 12th of November, an American Airlines flight crashed in Queens, NYC, initially spawning concerns of another terror attack. The crashed killed all 260 people aboard, 5 people on the ground, and is the second deadliest plane accident on US soil.
lovb1 TIL In 1896 two norwegians crossed the Atlantic in 55 days in a rowboat. A record that lasted 114 years.