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TIL the Indonesia Volcano Erupted earlier today-

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nWgrd TIL United States, under President Eisenhower, initiated Iran's nuclear program through the Atoms for Peace program. In 1957, the U.S. provided Iran with its first nuclear reactor and nuclear fuel. Later, after 1967, the U.S. also supplied Iran with weapons-grade enriched uranium.
166V7 TIL Martha Gellhorn was the only woman to land on the Normandy beaches (alongside 150,000 men). She was a journalist but her request to come along had been denied, so she stowed away in a toilet and then disguised herself as a stretcher bearer
9pjX TIL that Nikola Tesla believed that women would become superior to men in future societal standing, and stated that “This struggle of the human female toward sex equality will end in a new sex order, with the female as superior”.
OG8xY TIL Ekiben are bento (Japanese box meals) made specifically for train travel. The meals vary by train station and are typically a local speciality. At their peak in the 1980s an estimated 12 million ekiben were consumed daily in Japan.
NXmyQ TIL that John Rae, aided by the inuit, discovered that Franklin's lost Arctic expedition had starved to death and committed cannibalism. When Rae reported this the British public refused to believe their sailors could resort to such acts, with Rae being condemn as a idiot for believing the inuit.