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TIL that in 1994 a Boy Scout attempted to make a neutron gun and irradiated himself and his neighborhood in the process until he got arrested.

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nOk7 TIL The world’s first motion picture screening was held in December 1895. Within one year the earliest pornographic movie Le Coucher de la Mariée was released
BLZK TIL that Van Cats of Eastern Turkey (a naturally-occurring breed) all have white fur, mismatched eyes, and love to swim.
kAX5 TIL in 2011 Donald Jackson and a team of calligraphers completed what is believed to the first illuminated and handwritten bible since the invention of the printing press. It took 12 years to complete and cost $8 million.
DQpRP TIL about William Rankin, a pilot who in 1959 parachuted into and survived passing through a cumulonimbus thunderstorm cloud while it was fully developed, an experience so traumatic that he dubbed it "being in a huge, uncontrollable laundry machine."
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