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TIL due to a typo the wrong type of kitty litter was used during a nuclear materials containment. This caused an explosion and more than $2B in cleanup.

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WlMX TIL Australian funnel web spiders are accidentally toxic given the fact the venom appears to be fairly harmless to many other animals except primates and no primates are native to Australia.
P1YmV TIL that despite being the largest planet in the Solar System, Jupiter also spins the fastest. It completes one full rotation in just under 10 hours.
7r6GX TIL in 2019 the wealth per adult in North America was $417,694.
kORlB TIL: Psycho was the first movie to show a toilet flushing
yVPdX TIL about Floyd Allen from Carroll County, VA who was sentenced to one year in jail. Rather than go to jail, Allen and his family pulled out guns in the courthouse and killed the Judge, the sheriff, the prosecutor and 2 others in a violent shoot out. Allen was later executed for his escape attempt.