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TIL North Korea’s only nuclear reactor and the one used to produce their weapons grade plutonium is a 1954 gas-graphite design that was used at the worlds first full scale nuclear power plant, Calder Hall(and it’s sister plant Chapelcross)

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R6b6 TIL that 3 banana companies overthrew the government of Honduras.
LQG0p TIL James Garfield is the only president of the United States to have made an original contribution to the field of mathematics. His proof of the Pythagorean theorem was published in the New England Journal of Education in 1876.
KOdva TIL New Zealand spent $17.4 millions searching for a new flag and they ended up using the old one.
gMRGL Til that Barrow in Alaska remains in daylight for 84 days in Summer and dark for 67 days in Winter. It even experiences a midnight Sun!
7rnK7 TIL Waffle House has its own record label called "Waffle Records." They've produced about 40 songs including "There Are Raisins in my Toast." They hold 1% of all plays at Waffle House jukeboxes.