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TIL that several Hells Angels members plotted to murder Mick Jagger after he called them out for fatally stabbing a black man at their free concert in Altamont, California in 1969. They took a boat to his location on Long Island, but had to swim for their lives when a major storm brewed up.

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GYANQ Dumping all our nuclear waste in a volcano does seem like a neat solution for destroying the roughly 29,000 tons of spent uranium fuel rods stockpiled around the world. But there's a critical standard that a volcano would have to meet to properly dispose of the stuff, explains Charlotte Rowe, a volcano geophysicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory. And that standard is heat. The lava would have to not only melt the fuel rods but also strip the uranium of its radioactivity.
grMo9 TIL that in the 1950s British developed a ten-kiloton nuclear land mine that used living chickens as a source of heat to keep their electronics working during winter.
a8jmJ TIL Volkswagen Beetle production eventually ended in Mexico in 2003 because of the introduction of a new taxi regulation in Mexico City, requiring only four-door vehicles, to prevent robberies.
epKRb TIL about Abbess Mariam Soulakiotis or "Mother Rasputin", who was a serial killer active from (1939-1950) she would starve, beat, and condemn victims to tuberculosis-ridden cells. Authorities first arrested her for export of olive oil to Cyprus and the import of tires. Her victim total was 27-177.
D197P TIL Researchers Turn Spinach Leaves Into Beating Heart Tissues