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TIL 2 billion years a natural nuclear reactor existed in Gabon, and it is the only natural reactor we know the existence of today

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awLRy TIL The N1 moon rocket was originally purposed as a super-heavy ICBM capable of delivering a 100-megaton warhead
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1RW7 TIL Orson Scott Card wrote in 2008 that “marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it is my mortal enemy. I will act to destroy that government and bring it down.”
gMDnX TIL of the Everleigh Club, a former brothel in Chicago, Illinois, that was in operation from 1900 to October 1911, would serve iced clam juice and a tablet of aspirin as a starter for breakfast, which began at 2:00 in the afternoon.
MeonA TIL that the Euthanasia Coaster is a hypothetical steel roller coaster designed to kill its passengers "with elegance and euphoria"