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TIL a boy scout created a hazardous radioactive site in his backyard while trying to build a nuclear reactor using household items, and was arrested in 2007 for stealing 16 smoke detectors, which contain radioactive material.

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lo7A1 TIL Michael Crichton, author of Jurassic Park, believed that his professor at Harvard was giving him unfair grades. To prove it, he turned in a paper from George Orwell. He received a B-.
bP47 TIL Cards against Humanity funds the Science Ambassador Scholarship: full tuition for a woman seeking an undergraduate degree in STEM fields.
N7LVP TIL On average, the sun rotates on its axis once every 27 days. However, its equator spins the fastest and takes about 24 days to rotate, while the poles take more than 30 days
e0ygD TIL only 13% of Singaporeans can speak their national language, Malay. This also means that 87% cannot understand their own national anthem, which is in Malay! Instead, they speak an English-based creole known as Singlish.
ndWP TIL that the pyramids were built not by slaves, but by well–fed, skilled laborers, who were given proper housing and living quarters.