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TIL there is a Westinghouse atom smasher rotting away in PA

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oXv8 TIL in 1982, in response to critics of his horror writing, Stephen King published a collection of 4 dramatic stories. Three out of the four were adapted into films: Apt Pupil, Stand By Me, and The Shawshank Redemption.
9717 TIL of experiments in a high violence neighborhood of Chicago resulted in a 67% drop in shootings…by treating violence like an infectious disease instead of passing legislation or increasing arrests. Similar strategies resulted in 45% drops in other neighborhoods.
7BEr TIL: That American toilets clog so much because they have a trapway half the size of the trapway in an Australian or NZ Toilet
m1aKo TIL rabies kills 59 thousand people a year
BrO9e TIL Imelda Marcos & her husband hold the Guinness World Record for the Greatest Robbery of a Government. She once forced a plane to do a U-turn mid-air just because she forgot to buy cheese in Rome.