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TIL That the Nokia 1100 is the world’s best selling mobile phone

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e08Jg TIL the "Woman Yelling at Cat" meme lady was yelling at her friends for publicly exposing the fact that her husband was abusing her. He later committed suicide.
Oow4X TIL that the US recorded Germany’s nuclear scientists (most of whom thought an atomic bomb was impossible) finding out about Hiroshima
kO8Xg TIL that besides Chernobyl and Fukushima, there was a Soviet nuclear disaster that happened on 1957. The Kyshtym Disaster. Death toll is estimated to be at 50 to more than 8,000. The CIA knew about it but covered it up to prevent panic affecting their own nuclear plants.
R5Pm8 TIL the Daily Mail used to be openly pro-fascist, with editorials expressing support of Mussolini's Italy, Hitler's Germany, and British fascist movements during the 1930s.
XaPr TIL of Bass Reeves. He was born into slavery, became one of the first black Deputy U.S. Marshals, arrested over 3000 felons, and may have been the inspiration for the character ‘The Lone Ranger’.