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TIL a 17-year-old boy once tried to build a nuclear reactor in his backyard. Although his homemade reactor never achieved critical mass, it ended up emitting dangerous levels of radioactivity

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N7oy6 TIL of Griselda Balco, Colombian drug lord of the Medellín Cartel and pioneer in the Miami cocaine drug trade and underworld during the 1980s through the early 2000s. It has been estimated that she was responsible for up to 2000 murders while transporting cocaine. She was shot and killed in 2012.
E1Zb0 TIL that Steve Jobs used a loophole in the UNOS registration system to get his liver transplant before others.
RPLa TIL Vincent Van Gogh did not complete his first major work of art until 5 years before his death, and that his body of work went mostly unnoticed until after his suicide.
yQbJe TIL that all the songs in "Singin' in the Rain" besides "Moses Supposes" and "Make Em Laugh" are originally from other movies.
wL85W TIL: A day on Earth was 6 hours long 4.5 Billion years ago.