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TIL South Africa is the first country to voluntarily dismantle its own nuclear weapons it had developed itself

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xVwd0 TIL talk-show host Stephen Colbert half-jokingly ran for US President in the 2008 election. He stated that he would only he run if he received a sign, which came when Viggo Mortensen, who played Aragorn in Lord of the Rings, appeared on his show and gave him a replica of the the sword, 'Anduril'.
loE7a TIL of the legend of the French shepherd boy who hid his milk curds and bread in a cave to chase a beautiful girl. Although he lost the girl, a few weeks later he discovered his milk curds had become a tasty cheese with veins of a blue mold. Roquefort cheese is still made from the same mold.
ANwLn TIL: There is an official world record for time travel. It is held by cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev, who has spent a total of 803 days in orbit around the Earth. According to Einstein's relativity theory, Sergei has traveled approximately 0.02 seconds forward in time.
QVn9 TIL The Netherlands has drug testing spots where people can (anonymously) get all their drugs tested for free.
kOee5 TIL that during a particularly cold spell in the town of Snag (Yukon) where the temp reached -83f (-63.9c) you could clearly hear people speaking 4 miles away along with other phenomenon such as peoples breath turning to powder and falling straight to the ground & river ice booming like gunshots.