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TIL The US government has been using Native American land for nuclear waste, mining, and testing for decades.

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nWkK9 TIL in 1838, France invaded Mexico because of the looting of a French-owned bakery in Mexico City, leading to the Pastry War which resulted in a blockade of Mexican ports until diplomatic negotiations resolved the conflict.
mpKO TIL when developing N64s Goldeneye, Rare developers used a modified Sega Saturn controller for early playtesting & originally intended for weapon-reloading to be by unplugging/reinserting the N64 controller rumble pack. Each cartridge also contains a ZX Spectrum Emulator with 10 Rare-developed games
epy4D TIL In 2014, a 15-year-old teenager injected himself with mercury, hoping to gain superpowers like the X-Men. He mimicked Wolverine's transformation, but it ended in disaster. He nearly lost his life and realized superpowers are just fiction.
b9nVN TIL that in 1997, while high on tequila and cocaine, Christian Slater was arrested and sentenced to 3 months in prison after being found guilty of repeatedly punching his girlfriend, biting a man on the chest, and attacking the police officers who came to arrest him.
ANXpa TIL there are 57 universities around the world with no tuition for all international students, providing free education regardless of a student's country of origin.