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Physicists have confirmed a pear-shaped nucleus, and it could ruin time travel forever.

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Bg8Be TIL that Zambia entered the 1964 Olympics as a British Colony and exited it as an independent country, gaining independence on the same day as the closing cereomny
rjj4 TIL of Ewen Cameron, who in the the 50s ran experiments on humans which involved giving several electric shocks a week, taping blacked out football helmets to their heads and playing repetitive messages in their ears for months at a time. Some patients apparently forgot who they were and how to talk
KOmXB TIL that Johny Cash had a younger brother, Tommy Cash who also is a country singer and is still active.
8WXG TIL for $45, the U.S. Bureau of Engraving & Printing will sell you a 5-lb bag full of $10,000 worth of shredded U.S. currency.
QeLE TIL that since 2000, the license plates of the District of Columbia (whose residents pay taxes to the federal government, but do not elect representatives or senators to congress) have featured the slogan “Taxation Without Representation”.