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TIL that the Iranian Nuclear Program really got off the ground in 1976 when Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld convince President Ford to sell Plutonium to Iran.

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b697p TIL pro-segregationist Virginia politician Harry F. Byrd was a direct descendant of Pocahontas
XEGJj TIL 3000ft up a mountain in France is a block of sandstone commemorating the exact spot where the author Victor Hugo was conceived.
AD76w TIL dying of laughter is an actual cause of death. The last notable case was when a man of died of laughter because his pulse hit an estimated 250-500 bpm while watching 'A Fish Called Wanda'.
4X9JR TIL that from 1910 to 1915, the Boy Scouts of America had a "Stalker" merit badge
R5o46 TIL that from 1961 to 1993, 6 out of the 7 US Presidents were navy veterans.