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TIL that, in 1379, a baby from Yorkshire was named Diot Coke.

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LkMD9 TIL: Considered one of the "most valuable" atomic spies - Klaus Fuchs worked on the Manhattan Project, and then provided intelligence first to the British (illegally in 1946), then to the Soviets (1947), and finally to the Chinese (1959). All three of these countries eventually obtained nukes.
R7nJj TIL about Bhopal, the 33 yr old site of the worst industrial accident in history. Never being addressed, the site is still actively killing people to this day.
r8xW TIL a lawyer named James Thronton only works for one client- the Earth- and even managed to successfully sue the UK government to admit that it was breaching legal limits for air pollution.
yVAEp TIL that in 1977, Indian painter P.K. Mahanandia biked from India to Sweden to be with his love, selling his possessions to fund the journey.
0wB71 TIL That Punxsutawney Phil (the season predicting groundhog) is allegedly immortal from drinking the secret “elixir of life”, at the groundhog picnic each year. His wife, Phyllis does not receive the elixir and is not immortal