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TIL that the Soviets realised that the Americans and British were developing an atomic bomb when they noticed that Western scientists had ceased publishing papers on nuclear science. Correctly guessing that nuclear science had been made a state secret, they began their own program

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9WD6 TIL, The last reported execution for sorcery in Saudi Arabia took place…..in June 2012
YaWx TIL in 1996, residents of Scunthrope, North Lincolnshire, England could not register for e-mail addresses because of web filtering restrictions on the substring “cunt” of the town’s name.
YAyA TIL Pokémon Red and Blue cost approximately 76 million dollars to develop in 1996. The Witcher 3 cost 82 million and has a file size of 50GB compared to Pokémon’s 500KB.
M7goA TIL of Peter Wallace, an English or Scottish buccaneer who, in 1638, founded the first English settlement in present-day Belize.
ANLRw TIL there are carnivorous caterpillars that wear the skins of their prey.