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TIL that the US nuclear codes were 00000000 for twenty years

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Br7MD TIL About Rachel Hoffman, a college student who was told the only way she’d get out of drug charges was to become a informant. She was ordered to buy 1,500 ecstasy pill, 2 oz of cocaine and two firearms. She was subsequently killed by one of those firearms and her body was found two days later.
b9LWa TIL a Chinese restaurant owner admitted to serving opium-laced noodles to hook customers into coming back for more.
9Y9Jm TIL: Every day during peak season, 30-35 jumbo jets loaded with cut flowers leave Columbia. Most land in Miami.
MAB TIL by 25 BC, ancient Romans developed a recipe for concrete specifically used for underwater work which is essentially the same formula used today.
X0oyX TIL of Tom Major Ball a circus performer who is listed as an inspiration for David Bowie’s “Major Tom”. Ball had numerous illegitimate children, had an affair with a co-star who later died on stage, sold garden gnomes as a business and in his 60’s, fathered future UK prime minister John Major.