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TIL you could swim in a spent nuclear fuel pool without being harmed

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mbmv TIL During Ellen Burstyn’s monologue in Requiem of a Dream about how it feels to be old, Matthew Libatique accidentally let the camera drift off-target. The reason was because he had been crying during the take and fogged up the camera’s eyepiece. This was the take used in the final print.
Nyp6 TIL there is actually a law in Arizona called the “Stupid Motorist Law”
P1PwV TIL that the number of possible QR codes is larger than the number of atoms in the universe.
Vw5p TIL that the Zuni Indians of New Mexico spoke a language which is remarkably similar to Japanese.
KYjMw TIL that the Great Qing Legal Code was in force until 1971 in then-British Hong Kong