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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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neOg7 TIL that the expedition that in 1988 found the wreck of the SS Central America and recovered large amounts of gold from it were promptly sued by 39 insurance companies that had paid for damages after its sinking 1857
ADPed TIL in "Goodfellas", Robert DeNiro learned details about the real Jimmy Burke. He found that Jimmy loved ketchup, and how he poured it-because dispensing ketchup out of a glass bottle was a common problem then. The "spin" technique is what he used in the film, the way the real Jimmy did.
pYRpO TIL There is a small Polish village in Turkey with its own Polish community. The village was visited by many famous people like Franz Liszt or Kemal Atatürk.
8aJKZ TIL From the 1950s until the 1970s, vending machines were used at American airports to sell life insurance policies covering death, in the event that the buyer's flight crashed
QJGwE TIL actor Robert Pattinson dealt with an obsessed fan who had been camping outside his apartment by taking her out on a dinner date. "I just complained about everything in my life and she never came back."