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TIL: An underachieving Princeton student wrote a term paper describing how to make a nuclear bomb. It was seized by the FBI

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Wk7MX What can liquefy its limbs, throw up its own stomach and still live? Echinoderms, a group of sea creatures that can regenerate their own body parts! In this episode of Today I Learned, National Geographic Explorer Paul Bump tells you all about echinoderm’s incredible capacity for regeneration.
eppEn TIL the recycle looking symbol on all plastics does not mean it is recyclable
Bgv9y TIL: That the first video to air on MTV was one emblematic of MTV's concept, The Buggles' "Video Killed the Radio Star" which was immediately followed by a brief message about music and television coming together and then "You Better Run" by Pat Benatar.
nex1W TIL that California generates so much solar energy that it has to pay other states to take the excess so their power lines don't overload.
XJlk TIL the international reactions and events around the US invasion of Grenada were strikingly similar to the Russian invasion of Crimea.