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TIL Common Smoke detectors in Russia use weapons grade Plutonium-239 for the source.

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YNPA TIL Louis Armstrong asked Richard Nixon to carry his bags through customs for him because he ‘was an old man’. The bags had marijuana in them.
R7Xw TIL. Casper the Friendly Ghost was a young teen who died of pneumonia after sledding all day.
j6Bwj TIL Pink Floyd derived its name from the first names of two Blues players, and at the last minute
KQLa TIL that Justin Bieber’s mother, Pattie Mallette, was a thief and drug dealer, before she tried to kill herself by throwing herself in front of a truck. She survived, but was admitted into a mental institution. After her release she fell pregnant and gave birth to Justin - all before she was 18.
v1lW7 TIL A group of students in Iran spent years reconstructing thousands of shredded CIA secret documents, and subsequently published them