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TIL There is a bizarre colony of displaced Ants living in an abandoned Polish nuclear weapons bunker

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0w0xM TIL that in 1966 a US Air Force B-52 bomber and a USAF tanker collided in midair, and the 4 nuclear bombs the B-52 carried fell into Southeast Spain. One of the bombs detonated, scattering plutonium all over the countryside.
mxWWv TIL that Cats the musical uses carefully crafted yak hair wigs for costumes. In 2016, they cost $2300 each and it took 40 hours or more to make a single wig. The wigs can’t be re-used. Over its 18-year run, the first Broadway production used 3247 pounds of yak hair.
Lv1r TIL Police in the UK have shot dead 5 people in the last 4 years. In the US, this figure is 1600.
xVPnw TIL Neils Bohr was gifted a house with free beer for life on winning the Nobel. A beer pipeline was connected from the Carlsberg brewery nextdoor to this house. Bohr stayed there from 1932 until his death in 1962.
xVjbb TIL Charondas - a Greek lawgiver - once issued a law saying that anyone who brought weapons into the Assembly must be put to death. One day, he arrived to the Assembly after hunting with a knife still attached to his belt. He committed suicide in order to uphold his own law.