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TIL that, to date, six nuclear weapons have been lost and never recovered.

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kJ6LW TIL Claude Debussy played & recorded piano rolls of his own compositions.
Z8np TIL that WD-40 is not patent protected. This avoids completely disclosing its ingredients, making it harder for companies to mimic.
eLxb TIL Scientists disagree about whether plants can think, feel, and communicate. They mostly agree about the facts, so the disagreement is about what to call it: “communicate” versus “signal”. Some say plants are intelligent, and they have sufficient memory to “train” them to change their “behavior”.
7rgZx TIL that several months before Russell Crowe won the Oscar for Gladiator, the FBI warned him that the al-Qaeda were planning to kidnap him as part of a “cultural destabilization plot”. For nearly two years, the FBI guarded Crowe in public and refused to give him any details about the threat.
a8mrL TIL about Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines, a radio station in Rwanda during the Rwandan Genocide that would play dance music and encourage listeners to kill Tutsi