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TIL that undercover investigators from the Government Accountability Office set up a shell company, and received a license for the radioactive materials needed for a dirty bomb, all without any inquiries from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

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V090 TIL An eagle was given a 3d-printed prostate beak after her real one was damaged after being shot.
gMRy4 TIL there was a short-lived 16th century German colony in the Americas: Klein Venedig. Its capital, Neu Augsburg, is present-day Coro in Venezuela, which is the country’s second-oldest city.
BgZQd TIL The first Papal visit to a mosque was in May 2001. Pope John Paul II took off his shoes and entered the Omayyad Mosque in Damascus, Syria, to visit the tomb of John the Baptist (who is called Yah-ya el-Mamadan by Muslims).
9wrpQ TIL: At no point in the 1960s magazine profile "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold" does the writer actually speak to—or interact with—Frank Sinatra
6EVMY TIL that termites fart a LOT. Their flatulance accounts for somewhere between 5 and 19 percent of global methane emissions per year.