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TIL Mindy Kaling's brother pretended to be black to increase his odds of getting into Med school

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X040E TIL: Electric water heaters have 2 heating elements inside
KYgm4 TIL Bob Ballard, who discovered the wreck of the Titanic, wants to repaint it aid its preservation.
9wMBB TIL the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC displayed a working "Little Boy" Atom Bomb that lacked only uranium until 1986. Then the Department of Energy took the bomb from the museum to remove its inner components, so it could not be stolen and detonated with fissile material.
OGyOa TIL about a place with one of the longest names in the world: TaumatawhakatangihangakoauauoTamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahwhich is located 6kms outside of a small village called Porangahau, Central Hawkes Bay, Aotearoa/New Zealand.
awWKZ TIL in 2012 three anti-nuclear activists, including an 82-year-old nun, managed to break into an US government nuclear complex, paint anti-war slogans on the enriched uranium storage building, and spend several hours in the complex before being stopped by a lone guard.