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TIL that a child was prosecuted as an adult for having naked images of himself on his own phone

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QNvlM TIL that during the Falklands War, landmines unintentionally created safe havens for penguins. Too light to trigger the mines, they thrive and breed in these protected areas.
rOJ4 TIL Superman was created by two Jewish artists who fashioned a superhero around the identity of Moses. Both Moses and Superman escaped death as infants, were raised by foster parents, and went on to rescued people.
kOla4 TIL when Canada invented coloured designs on their coins, US Army contractors thought they were spy devices filled with "nanotechnology"
yQKDe TIL as a reaction to slipping behind in the space race, the United States Air Force developed a plan to detonate a nuclear bomb on the moon. The main objective was to cause a nuclear explosion that would be visible from Earth, boosting the morale of the Amercian people.
78Q4b TIL In 1815, Jefferson sold his 6,700-volume personal library to Congress for $23,950 to replace books lost when the British burned the U.S. Capitol, which housed the Library of Congress, during the War of 1812. Jefferson's books formed the foundation of the rebuilt Library of Congress's collections