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TIL South Africa ended its nuclear weapons program in 1993, making it the only country to achieve nuclear weapons capability and voluntarily relinquish it.

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4RR5 TIL billionaire J. Paul Getty refused to pay $17m ransom for his kidnapped Grandson. When the teenager’s severed ear arrived, he agreed $3m but only paid $2.2m… the maximum that would be tax deductable. He lent the other $800k to his son on the condition that he pay it back with 4% interest.
ANgVa TIL PT Barnum's intended 'Jenny Lind Hall' wasn't complete in time for the opera singer's U.S. tour. Establishing opera for the masses in the U.S., her shows were a smash hit. The theater later became NY Metropolitan Hall.
pYeR8 TIL Chinese Architect I.M. Pei designed the Louvre Pyramid. At first, the glass structure recieved heavy criticism and was called 'An Architectural Joke'. Today it is one of France's most iconic destinations.
YpGmA TIL about Djordje Mihailovic, a keeper of Serbian Military Cemetery at Zeitenlik, in Thessaloniki. Like his grandfather and father before him, for more than half a century he welcomes the descendants of Serbian soldiers who died in Salonika front during the WW1. He is the last of his line.
5VKbn TIL Miracle-Gro, a water-soluble fertilizer, was developed after Horace Hagedorn met nurseryman Otto Stern and learned of Stern's troubles shipping plants in 1944. They hired O. Wesley Davidson, a Rutgers University professor, to develop the fertilizer.