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TIL in the 60’s the us army did an experiment,where two people without nuclear training had to design a nuke with only access to public available documents. They succeeded!

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xVmbw TIL Danny Trejo got his first acting job when visiting a patient he was doing substance abuse counseling for on the set of "Runaway Train". He was offered a job as an extra in the film's prison scenes.
D1g5J TIL Sabrina Pasterski built a single engine airplane by the time she was 14 y/o, at 16 became the youngest person ever to fly their own plane; graduated MIT in 3 years with a 5.0 GPA and is now 24 at Harvard getting a PhD in high energy physics.
1aE1V TIL that Lorri Bagley, the actress who played the woman in the famous skinny dipping scene from the film Tommy Boy, had actually dated Chris Farley in 1993.
wLyeP TIL a woman burnt down the 5th oldest tree on earth while smoking meth
p8x4e TIL The movie Biodome was loosely based on a real Biodome