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TIL that Austrian schools and kindergartens keep a stockpile of potassium iodide pills in case of a nuclear disaster

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e0jK5 TIL lithium metal must be stored under argon as it can burn in a pure nitrogen atmosphere (no oxygen present) to form lithium nitride. Other reactive metals like sodium and potassium, however, do not react with nitrogen.
QJPGk TIL that in the late 1600s London was plagued by an attacker who would spank his victims with a rod, shout “Spanko!” and run away.
vY0L TIL Scarlett Johansson almost got the lead role in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo but lost it because director David Fincher thought she was too sexy. He said that no one would take the rape scene seriously as the audience would just be waiting to see her naked.
4XnDo TIL that Nazi commander Walter Rauff escaped justice for the deaths of nearly 100,000 people during WWII. He was instrumental in the implementation of the Nazis' genocide by mobile gas chamber. He died in 1984 from a heart attack as a free man in Chile. His MI5 file said he never showed any remorse.
xjJD TIL a bank robber successfully used a Craigslist help-wanted ad for construction workers, specifying their uniform, to create unwitting decoys around the bank he robbed in matching uniform. His “getaway car” was an inner tube.