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TIL: Until the 1970s, countries and individual cities had "ugly laws".These laws deemed it illegal for "any person, who is diseased, maimed, mutilated or deformed in any way, so as to be an unsightly or disgusting object, to expose himself or herself to public view."

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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.
R7OZQ TIL Breeder reactors are a type of nuclear reactor which produce more fissile materials than they consume. They are designed to extend the nuclear fuel supply for the generation of electricity, The concerns about nuclear weapons proliferation have been one large impediment to creating breeders.
BrZ7W TIL that in London in 1814, a vat at the Horse Shoe Brewery ruptured unleashing 1,470,000 L of beer which poured down Tottenham Court Road in a 15ft wave destroying two houses, a pub, and killing at least 8 people
9w01p TIL that Leni Riefenstahl had an affair with American Olympic decathlate Glenn Morris during the filming of "Olympia," Riefenstahl's documentary about the 1936 Berlin games
Z8QEa TIL A grizzly bear has the best sense of smell on Earth thought to be roughly 2,100 times better than a humans (7 times better than a bloodhounds) and have been known to catch scents from up to 20 miles away.