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TIL that Disney uses Touchstone Pictures to release films with more darker tones that wouldn’t be suitable for the Disney brand name.

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W7obo TIL a scientist hired his family to refine radium in their basement for 20 years, with the waste buried in the backyard. The property was declared a Superfund site and cost $70M to clean up. His body was exhumed for testing and had the largest amount of radioactive material ever detected in a human.
e0A94 TIL President Jimmy Carter left nuclear codes in the pocket of his suit jacket, and sent it to the dry cleaners. They threw it in the bin.
yVLjX TIL that Operation Denver was an active measure disinformation campaign run by the KGB in the 1980s to plant the idea that the United States had invented HIV/AIDS as part of a biological weapons research project at Fort Detrick, Maryland.
MlR8 TIL In Switzerland, it’s illegal to own just one guinea pig because they’re prone to loneliness
lobjV TIL we've known the Earth is a globe for over 2000 years