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TIL in 1996, an Boy Scout working on his Atomic Energy badge created the first nuclear reactor ever made by a private US citizen.

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vGBR TIL that cats (mainly female) bring you dead animals such as mice because they don’t think you could have caught one on your own, all to teach you their hunting wisdom under natural instinct
Y7yxA TIL that 6174 is called the Kaprekar Constant after Indian Mathematician D.R. Kaprekar. No matter which four digit number you start with (as long as it is not identical), you will always end up at 6174 in a maximum of seven iterations.
WbN4 TIL that the body of Leon Czolgosz, Assassin of President McKinley, was dissolved with acid after his execution
ANJ74 TIL Saul Goodman's alias is a play on the phrase "It's all good, man".
wLKEW TIL an estimated one in fifty people suffer from Aphantasia, a condition in which the person’s “mind eye” is blind and they can’t picture things just by thinking about them