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TIL: Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho was the first movie to show a toilet on screen

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Rl86 TIL a 17-year-old boy once tried to build a nuclear reactor in his backyard. Although his homemade reactor never achieved critical mass, it ended up emitting dangerous levels of radioactivity
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