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TIL Sissy Spacek funded the early David Lynch

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yVJma TIL the highly poisonous plant deadly nightshade was named belladonna (beautiful woman) because women used its juice in eye drops to make their eyes look more seductive
GA5K5 TIL that after the US hydrogen bomb test in 1954 exposed a Japanese fishing vessel to radiation, over one-third of Japan's population signed a petition to ban nuclear tests. This public outcry influenced Japan to establish its Atomic Energy Basic Law in 1955, forbidding military use of nuclear energ
oRjD7 TIL about Bir Tawil, an 800-square-mile area of land between Egypt and Sudan that is terra nullius (land belonging to no one) because both countries refuse to claim it. Claiming Bir Tawil would legally force them to give up their claim on the more valuable Hala'ib Triangle.
OGn5X TIL that Zimbabwe's health minister complained that the condoms made in China were too small for its men. The Chinese condom manufacturer subsequently said it planned on making its exports in different sizes after doing "some surveys on users’ data in the region".
4kg1J TIL about Martha Cothren, winner of the 2006 Veteran of Foreign Wars Teacher of The Year.