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TIL: A nuclear physicist describes 7 things you probably didn't know about radioactive fallout from a nuclear bomb

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8JMP TIL when Tracy Morgan was unavailable to finish recording the full-length version of “Werewolf Bar Mitzvah” for 30 Rock, Donald Glover stepped in and completed the verses in his impression of Morgan. Glover also voices the ‘producer’ on the track.
m1GE TIL that William of Orange in the 16th century was the first man to be assassinated by a gun.
YpEBx TIL that during an awards ceremony for the Seal Team 6 operators who were on the mission to kill Osama Bin Laden, CIA Director Leon Panetta disclosed classified information in a speech. One of the attendees was Mark Boal, who would go on to write the script for Zero Dark Thirty
e0PB4 TIL What is dead may never die: Astronomers discovered a "zombie" star that went supernova in 1954...then exploded again in 2014. According to the study's lead author, "This supernova breaks everything we thought we knew about how they work."
WAjX TIL that Queen, notorious for wild parties, hosted a release party for ‘Jazz’ that included a man biting heads off live chickens, naked models wrestling in a liver pit, and little-people walking about with trays of cocaine strapped to their heads.