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TIL the Hanford Site in Washington made the plutonium for the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki and the first nuclear test at Trinity—while exposing thousands of workers to deadly radiation.

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69WBm TIL Michael Jackson's "Billy Jean" was a real stalker who sent Jackson multiple letters claiming he was the father of one of her twins, culminating in sending him a handgun and an invitation to a murder-suicide. It was also based on multiple women who harassed his brothers while in the Jackson 5.
RML6 TIL that the founder of Mitsubishi was an actual Samurai.
awmON TIL that Ulithi, an isolated Pacific atoll used by the US Navy as a forward base during WWII, was for seven months the largest and most active anchorage in the world. At its height in the run-up to the invasion of Okinawa, more than 700 ships were anchored in its lagoon.
N7Gp8 TIL that peaches and nectarines are the same fruit. Nectarines simply have a recessive allele for smooth skin.
Kaoa TIL the Disney animated Jungle Book character, King Louie, is an Orangutan but in the live action version they changed him to a Gigantopithecus. Although extinct they once lived in forest throughout India, which avoids the movie perpetuating a geographic fallacy.