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TIL about the "Ice Cap" nuclear test site that was supposed to detonate a large nuclear device underground. Testing never occurred and today the site can still be visited

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E1OVo TIL about Richard Feynman who taught himself trigonometry, advanced algebra, infinite series, analytic geometry, and both differential and integral calculus at the age of 15. Later he jokingly Cracked the Safes with Atomic Secrets at Los Alamos by trying numbers he thought a physicist might use.
781n7 TIL that there is a Goldfish breed so rare that is considered a cryptid. The Meteor Goldfish.
WZBd TIL: North Carolina performed forced sterilizations well into 1970s to combat poverty and welfare costs. If their board deamed you mentally defective, that was their solution.
AXPl TIL Lincoln Logs were invented by John Lloyd Wright, son of famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright
MG8B TIL Uday Hussein, Saddam’s son, murdered his father’s personal valet and food taster with an electric carving knife in front of dinner guests at Suzanne Mubarak’s birthday party for introducing his father to his second wife.