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TIL South Africa is the only African nation to develop nuclear weapons and the only nation in history to voluntarily dismantle their nuclear weapons program

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e08Rn TIL That Darwin was apprehensive to publish his work on evolution. He did not publish until 20 years after he wrote his theory, and may have never published if not for the publicized research of Alfred Russel Wallace.
Ypw6x TIL the color orange is named after the fruit of the same name. Not the other way around.
9O1M TIL there is a US company, producing renewable oils on industrial scale, by fermenting algae.
rR4Me TIL of Ken Hechtman who as a student at Columbia stole Uranium 238 was expelled. Then proceeded to break into Area 51, Yucca Flat Test Site, and was present at Timothy McVeigh’s execution. After 9/11 he entered Afghanistan illegally and was captured by the Taliban.
BgNRL TIL that in 1944, Germany was spending 75% of it's GDP on military expenditure.