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Today I learned Jimmy Carter was lowered into a Nuclear Reactor to help repair it.

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R7Ow7 TIL An Ossuary in Hallstatt, Austria holds over 1,000 skulls, 610 of them delicately hand painted. Due to limited space, after 15 years of burial, remains were relocated to St. Micheal's church and graves were reused. People began decorating their ancestors' skulls to make them less anonymous.
jR0p TIL that the Confederacy planned to conquer Latin America after a Southern victory in the Civil War.
oRABY TIL it used to be believed that babies as old as 15 months couldn't feel pain. As a result, doctors would preform surgery without anesthesia. Doctors used muscle relaxants on the infants to prevent squirming, essentially paralyzing the babies for the duration of the procedure.
NXxve TIL that the town of Talkeetna, Alaska had a orange cat as mayor for 20 years. Stubbs the cat even survived an assassination attempt by a dog.
Pr9g TIL the city of Wallace, Idaho, to protect itself from proposed interstate expansion, managed to list all of its downtown buildings on the National Register of Historic Places. As a result, the federal government was forced to build, at great expense, an elevated viaduct for I-90 around the city.