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TIL of Annie Dookhan, a chemist in a drug testing lab who tampered with 40,000+ samples resulting in thousands of innocent people being put in prison

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awZ6J TIL: Two billion years ago, a uranium deposit at the present-day location of the Oklo mine in Gabon, west Africa, had just the right environmental characteristics to sustain a nuclear chain reaction. With ground water acting as a moderator, it operated like a natural version of a nuclear reactor.
KOkG9 TIL that Seattle City Lights paid an annual payment of $5000 to British Columbia for the loss of over 5,000 acres of land due to the filling up of the Ross Dam Reservoir
OGE9L TIL what we call a 9-to-5 workday, Chinese people have "996," which means they have to work from 9am to 9pm 6 days a week.
xVKB7 TIL in June of 1996, Tupac went to prom with a fan who wrote him a letter jokingly saying “If you ever read this, please take me to my prom since my boyfriend just broke up with me.”
E17rW TIL "Aladdin" and "Ali Baba" were not part of the original One Thousand and One Nights; they were added to the collection by a French translator, who heard them from a Maronite storyteller.