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TIL that in a real life case of Dexter's Laboratory, chemistry obsessed teenager David Hahn created a nuclear reactor by pretending to be an scientist/highschool teacher in order to obtain radioactive material. Sadly David passed away in 2016 due to alcohol poisoning.

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Pmge TIL that Rome’s population peaked at one million people during the reign of Augustus. When the empire fell, this number declined and Rome did not reach one million until the early 1930’s.
GY1WJ TIL Ed Sheeran’s childhood friend was struggling financially and asked him to put one of her songs on his then-nearly completed album “X”. Instead they wrote “Thinking Out Loud” together which was released as a single and hit #1. She’ll never have to worry about money again.
Mev90 TIL of a French soldier who was taken as a POW and fed only potatoes during his captivity, and survived. Feeling like he should have died, he made it his life’s mission to convince the world of the nutritional value of potatoes, and his tomb in France is decorated with potatoes as a tribute.
naNd TIL : When Voltaire (on his deathbed) was asked by priests to renounce the devil, he sarcastically replied, “This is no time to be making new enemies.”
QRVX TIL that Kevin Costner offered CIA operative and watergate burglar E. Howard Hunt $5 million to tell the truth about what happened in Dallas when JFK was assassinated.