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TIL that the FBI and EPA suspected a nuclear weapons facility was illegally leaking radioactive materials but were unable to investigate due to substantial security, they asked for a meeting with top officials regarding a “terrorist threat”. Once inside they immediately served a search warrant.

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vdaB TIL: Tim Martin, the owner of the Weatherspoons pub chain in the UK named it after his schoolteacher who said he would never amount to anything in business.
MeVoV TIL in 1996, a bill called the Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Act was passed to protect food vendors from liability for giving unused food to the needy instead of throwing it away for liability reasons.
Mele0 TIL about Tom Sachs. An autistic NYC-based sculptor who, when needing money, would use his art tools and scraps to make crude improvised firearms in his studio to sell in the NYPD Buyback programs for up to $300 apiece.
oBXGr TIL that James K. Polk is the only US president who pledged to serve only one term during his campaign. He was known for fulfilling all his major promises and died 3 months after his term ended, making his retirement the shortest. He is also the only speaker of the house to be elected as president.
VMrMQ TIL Hifumi Togo was originally going to be a member of the Phantom Thieves as the teams brains, along with a scrapped character that was meant to be a radically minded strategist. However, the story was already exceedingly long at the time, so both ideas were scrapped and Hifumi became a Confidant.