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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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loEG5 TIL that the first SMS text message ever sent was on December 3, 1992. It was sent by a 22 year old test engineer from his computer to a phone. The message simply read "Merry Christmas".
eD8k TIL that ‘Mitch’, a character from the 2012 movie ParaNorman, was the first openly gay character to appear in a mainstream children’s animated film.
7raLX TIL that between the years of 1995 and 2003 the mayor of Bogotá, Columbia hired mimes to ridicule traffic violators in the streets in an effort to reduce chaotic driving. Traffic fatalities decreased 50% as a result.
BaaD Today I learned that with less than an hour’s time of instruction, people can be taught how to hold their breath (static apnea) for over 4 minutes.
KY9G6 TIL an episode of Peppa Pig was banned in Australia because it taught children that "spiders can't hurt you", because Australian spiders can actually hurt you