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TIL that America founded the Iranian Nuclear program.

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RQxa TIL lawmakers got sick after drinking raw milk–which they drank to celebrate passing a law legalizing raw milk as safe for human consumption. Naturally, instead of seeing it for what it was (poetic justice), they refused to blame the raw milk.
E1NPx TIL That nematode, the simplest worm, despite having only 302 neurons that were comprehensively mapped and researched, still exhibits a complex range of behavior, emergence of which is still not well understood. Even the basic movement can't be fully explained.
1a8LX TIL Professional snooker player "Big Bill" Werbeniuk once drank 76 cans of lager during a competitive game. He then carried on drinking for another 7 hours. Werbeniuk also offset the cost of lager against income tax, consuming 50 pints a day. He died of heart failure aged 53
JYWwQ TIL that after leaving NWA, founding member DJ Arabian Prince went on to work as a video game programmer and a visual effects artist for the original Power Rangers TV show.
kOmW TIL that Stephen Colbert testified before Congress about Migrant Workers in the US and at one point asked that a video of his colonoscopy be submitted to the Congressional record.