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TIL A science set which allowed children to play with radioactive materials at home was available between 1950 and 1951

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pYYN4 TIL France, saw its own constitutional crisis in 1958, when an attempted military coup was diverted only when the wartime leader Charles de Gaulle handed himself emergency powers to establish a unity government that satisfied both civilian and military leaders.
xOvB TIL a male tiger in India adopted a litter of tiger cubs. He shares his food with them and plays with them. This has never been observed before.
4x9a TIL that Vietnam War protesters used tethered helium balloons to ward off government helicopters that were sent to disrupt their outdoor concert.
p8wmO TIL Popeye eats spinach because of an error in the calculation of its iron content by chemist Erich von Wolf in 1870. He misplaced a decimal point, recording iron as having 35mg per 100g, instead of its true value of 3.5mg/100g. The former is equal to eating part of a paperclip.
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