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TIL that it rains diamonds on Uranus

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nWnNo TIL that Oliver North, of Iran-Contra fame, collaborated on an episode of "The Americans" dealing with Contras.
p8GRZ This photograph was taken with a simple 35 mm point-and-shoot camera in 1989 by the STS-29 crew aboard the space shuttle Discovery.
16g8X TIL Tom Brady was drafted by the Montreal Expos baseball team while still in high school, but instead chose to play football in college. This technically makes him the last player drafted by the Expos still playing professional sports.
PJgn TIL that in 1994 a Boy Scout named David Hahn attempted to make a neutron “gun,” and dangerously irradiated himself and his neighborhood in the process until his arrest.
K5pB TIL 14% of Americans are illiterate