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TIL The US Navy uses dolphins to help it defend the world's largest stock pile of nuclear weapons at naval Base Kitsap.

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R7d0a TIL that all-natural kitty litter is made from clays that are naturally high in thorium, uranium, and potassium-40. The quantities we (and our kitty friends) are exposed to are negligible, but in large shipments it's enough to set off radiation detectors.
WNO4 TIL that Senegalese Peacekeeper, Captain Mbaye Diagne, disobeyed the UN mandate and personally saved “as many as 600” Rwandans during the genocide. He was killed by a mortar shell a month before the genocide ended.
Ww8B TIL that Swissair Flight 111, which crashed off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada in 1998, was carrying half-a-billion dollars worth of diamonds and other jewels in the cargo hold. 98% of the aircraft was recovered, but the jewels are still missing.
rNkjd TIL That after Martin Luther King Jr's death, his speech, "I Have a Dream," was issued as a single under "Gordy Records," this single managed to peak at 88 on the Billboard Hot 100.
ZpeQG TIL that aesthetic dentist Dr. Irwin Smigel was the father of comedy writer Robert Smigel.