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TIL The Department of Energy sells rare isotopes online

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4kXdw TIL that Peter Gerry, a Senator from Rhode Island, is the only U.S. Senator in American history to lose re-election and later reclaim his Senate seat from the person who had defeated him.
E1Myp TIL Stalin wasn’t Russian (and Hitler wasn’t German)
8eBDL TIL that all the local anaesthetic drug names end in “-caine” because cocaine was one of the first local anaesthetics.
9YjQM TIL about Lafayette,a french aristocrat proclaimed to be 'The Hero of Two Worlds.' He fought as a general For America during the American Revolution, then went to France and fought as a General for the People in the French Revolution.
d8m59 TIL the worlds largest scale model of the Solar system exist in Sweden. The Sun is a large spherical arena in Stockholm with 110m in diameter. 300km north of it is Pluto, a small sphere of 12 cm in diameter constructed next to a lake believed to have been created by a meteorite impact.