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TIL: Sweden Almost Had Nuclear Weapons - By the mid-1960s, Sweden has enough fissile material to build a bomb in six months. To deliver the weapon they designed the Saab 36, a twin-engine Mach 2+ supersonic bomber.

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x6MXk TIL about the Good Friday prayer for the Jews, a catholic prayer for Jews to convert. Overtime as antisemitism lessened the phrasing of the prayer was changed. From Jews being described as Perfidis to faithless to somewhat complementing Jews as the first to hear the word of God
E1JvP TIL North Korean Leader Kim Jong-il was a huge movie buff owning a collection of more than 20,000 video tapes and DVDs. They included James Bond, Friday the 13th, Rambo, and Godzilla. He authored a book on Film Making in 1973 and even directed a film in 2006.
M7bNm TIL that there was a real-life Lord of the Flies-esque situation where school boys were stuck on a deserted island for 15 months but the boys banded together rather than feuding.
x6L5D TIL that the corporate takeover of American politics began in 1971 when the U.S. Chamber of Commerce asked Lewis Powell, a corporate attorney, to draft a memo on the state of the country. His memo argued that American business was "under broad attack" from consumer, labor and environmental groups.
dDXOd TIL about the AC/DC rule: the initial chart and sales performance of a new record album is often a reflection of the success of the artist's prior album, not the merits of the new record itself. This "rule" is named after AC/DC's Back In Black and For Those About To Rock We Salute You albums.