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TIL When Jimmy Carter was a young Nuclear officer in the US Navy, they sent him to help a partial meltdown in a Canadian nuclear reactor. They built an exact copy of the reactor to train with, then lowered him into the still extremely radioactive reactor to take it apart one piece at a time.

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OooR7 TIL in 2016, seven years after his death, Michael Jackson made $825 million.
QwGL TIL that there is a soccer team in Spain that since 1912 has only signed players who were born or raised in the Basque Country (where less than 7% of Spain’s population live). Despite that, the team is one of the most successful teams in Spain, and is one of the only teams never to be relegated
kYwe TIL there was no winner for the “Who Shot Mr. Burns” contest on The Simpsons. The contest rules said that a winner would be selected from the pool of people who guessed correctly, but there were no correct guesses.
mBBo TIL “scrub” was used as an insult meaning a “mean, insignificant fellow” as far as the 1580s.
PYQme TIL Pierre Joubert (1701-1814), age 113, was believed to have been the oldest person who ever lived. It was later discovered Pierre died in 1766 at age 65 and his son by the same name died in 1814, causing the confusion