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TIL that faking the moon landing in 1969 would have been harder than actually going to the moon

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9weyM TIL about David Hahn, the "Radioactive Boy Scout," who at age 17 built a functional nuclear breeder reactor in his backyard shed. He collected radioactive material from smoke detectors, old clocks, and camping lanterns, eventually creating a source so radioactive it was detected five houses away.
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