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TIL platypuses, gila monsters, and cone snails use insulin as venom (and are being studied as sources of diabetes treatments)

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jNyxM TIL only less than 2% of the uranium in Little Boy, the bomb that was dropped onto Hiroshima, actually fissioned. This was still enough to kill 66,000 people and have a fatal blast radius of 1.3km.
EmwV TIL co-founder of the charity Planting Peace purchased a house across the street from Westboro Baptist Church and hired a military veteran to painted it Rainbow.
R7gJQ TIL author Ed Abbey’s last wishes were for friends to transport his body in a pickup truck, foregoing undertakers, embalming or coffin in favor of an old sleeping bag and disregarding all laws concerning burial. He was laid to rest at a secret location in Arizona’s Cabeza Prieta desert.
epkQD TIL that in 1981 Yolanda King, daughter of Martin Luther King Jr, played Betty Shabazz, wife of Malcolm X, in a TV movie about Malcolm X's assassination. Malcolm was played by Morgan Freeman in an early dramatic role.
nWNa7 TIL that there is a plan in place to re-fill the Great Salt Lake with water from the Pacific Ocean