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TIL There is a gun at the International Space Station and it belongs to the Russians

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KGeE TIL When Patrick Stewart was first asked to consider playing Professor X on film, the actor had no idea who the character was. So when one of the producers handed him an ‘X-Men’ comic from her desk he responded, “What am I doing on the front of a comic book?”
mxMlY TIL Marie Curie's annex lab in Arcueil is sometimes called Chernobyl on the Seine. The lab closed in 1978 but radium has a half-life of 1,600 years, and there are traces of a uranium isotope at the Curie annex with a half-life of 4.5 billion years. The cleanup has so far cost about €10 million.
Od0e TIL that unpaid internships are illegal if the intern “displaces regular employees” or the employer “derives immediate advantage from the intern”.
NRVN TIL: In 1856, American politician, Preston Brooks (D), beat Senator Charles Sumner ® with a cane on the floor of the United States Senate in retaliation for an anti-slavery speech. He resigned his seat later in the year, only to be reelected to the same position left vacant by his resignation.
epxp5 TIL about the Kanopy app. All you need is a library card and you can stream movies and TV shows for free. You get a certain amount of credits per month based on your home library and the kids section is unlimited.