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TIL that in the 60s, the US dumped 120+ tons of VX Nerve Agent into the Florida and NY coasts. For reference, a single pinhead of VX is enough to kill a human.

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0d4lR TIL that despite earning 11 Academy Award nominations in 1985, The Color Purple (1985) holds the record for the most Oscar-nominated movie without a win.
aw1GZ TIL Voting is mandatory in Belgium. Citizens are automatically registered in the electoral polls and more than 90% of the eligible population takes part in the voting process, since you risk a fine if you do not vote either in person or by proxy.
Vkv8 TIL A man was once given a 5 month prison term for training his dog Adolf to raise his right paw in a Nazi salute every time the command “Heil Hitler!” was uttered
bdm4 TIL Kevin Spacey once directed and starred in a biopic - Beyond the Sea. Not only did he play crooner Bobby Darin, he chose to perform all of Darin’s songs himself.
ae59 TIL that to show how Classical Chinese had become an impractical language, linguist Chao Yuen Ren wrote a 92-character poem in which every syllable has the sound “shi”. The poem “Shī Shì shí shī shǐ” translates to “Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den”.