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TIL South Africa is the only country to have ever developed its own nuclear weapons and then voluntarily dismantled them.

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ErBp TIL Beauty & the Beast may be based on a true story about a man (Petrus Gonsalvus) with an excessive hair disease called hypertrichosis and King Henry II of France had him educated then married off as an experiment
D1vVj TIL that in 2011, a couple was banned from a Kentucky church due them being in an interracial relationship.
1GwD TIL that in Turkey boys aged 6 to 11 become a king for a day during their Sünnet Düğünü - a day of celebration for their circumcision that includes dressing like a king, eating sweets, receiving gifts, and partying with family, friends, and neighbors.
awbnN TIL that Samsung made Autonomous sentry guns and tanks for the South Korean Military
P7E TIL Short Round from Indiana Jones became a trained martial artist and Hollywood stunt coordinator.