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TIL that in 1950, Alfred Carlton Gilbert created a toy lab set that used actual radioactive material

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KOoEw TIL of Miki Endo, a Japanese emergency worker who gave her life during the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, by continuing to broadcast warnings and alerts over the community loudspeaker as the tsunami overwhelmed the town of Minamisanriku. She was credited with saving many lives.
QN5d TIL that the Toyota Truck driven by Marty McFly in Back to the Future III was later stolen, taken to Mexico, used by the Cartels, recovered and is now being restored.
rWko TIL: 1986’s Howard the Duck was such a financial disaster that it (along with his recent divorce) forced George Lucas to sell his new CGI company to Steve Jobs, giving birth to Pixar.
Yp1O7 TIL that in 2018, a man plotted to plant small bombs in Target stores disguised in food packages. His goal was to create bad publicity for Target, which would lower stock prices and allow him to buy cheap shares before they rebounded. He was caught after paying someone else to plant the bombs.
XaNQ TIL that The Complete Manual of Suicide, a Japanese book which provides explicit descriptions on various methods of suicide, was first published in 1993 and sold more than one million copies.