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TIL Kodak had weapons grade uranium in their Rochester Labs until 2007

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yQ5JX TIL The 6th biggest Pyramid in the world was built in 1991 and is a BassPro Shops Megastore.
6EY7Y TIL all Australians are legally entitled to a free portrait of the Queen
NwyJ TIL in 1959, three schizophrenics who all thought they were Jesus were forced to live together in the same mental hospital, to test the strength of self-delusion.
Ooja6 TIL: In 1841 during a naval battle between Argentina and Uruguay, the ship from Uruguay ran out of cannonballs. The captain ordered his men to shove the hard balls of cheese they had onboard into the cannons and to fire those. The cheese tore holes in the Argentine ship's sails and killed 2 sailors.
x5Zb TIL the composition of both marijuana and tobacco smoke is nearly identical - “Toxic substances, such as carbon monoxide, hydrogen cyanide, and nitrosamines occur in similar concentrations in tobacco and marijuana smoke; so do the amounts of particulate material known collectively as ‘tars’.”