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TIL that nuclear fission can occur naturally. 2 billion years ago, multiple reactions took place in what is now known as Oklo

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b6R9Q Today I learned that Mandy Pantinkin, aka Saul Berenson in 'Homeland', also played Inigo Montoya in 'The Princess Bride' . Are there two more contrasting roles?
a69y TIL Georgre Ohr, the “mad potter of Biloxi” had an 18" mustache that he curled behind his ears and tied behind his head. No one bought his wacky pottery for the ridiculous asking price of $25. Some of his work is worth up to 25 million today, as he predicted it someday would be.
e00Ak TIL Walt Whitman published a self-help series called Manly Health and Training under a pen name. It recommended beards, nude sunbathing, comfortable shoes, bathing daily in cold water, eating meat almost exclusively, plenty of fresh air, and getting up early.
gMNNA TIL Stoicism had a profound impact on Christianity, with some of the central concepts of Stoicism still being used in religious texts today, such as "virtue", "Spirit" and "conscience". Stoicism also invented the idea that sex is just within marriage, for unitive and procreative purposes only.
ZWWG TIL that up until the 1960’s, black Americans with cars could purchase a “Green Book” that would tell them which towns across America had colored facilities, which towns didn’t accept black people out after dark, and which places to avoid visiting if they wanted to survive their trip.