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TIL about the “Demon Core’, a 6.2 kg subcritical mass of plutonium that briefly went critical during two separate experiments, killing two members of the Manhattan Project

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LkKQp TIL T-rex babies were fluffy.
Zp4Np TIL that Nicaraguan Sign Language is a sign language that deaf children in Nicaragua spontaneously developed in the 1980s. Linguists find it particularly interesting because it is believed to be an example of the birth of a new language, unrelated to any other.
N18E TIL Dorothy Kilgallen, a panelist on the hit TV show What’s My Line?, died under what some consider mysterious circumstances while investigating the assassination of JFK. Shortly before she died, she told a friend, “I’m going to break the real story and have the biggest scoop of the century.”
bZa TIL a roller-coaster called the “Euthanasia Coaster” was designed to kill its passengers
awyby TIL All New Yorkers used to have to move on May 1st if their lease expired. It was known as "Moving Day" which led to massive traffic jams.