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TIL In 2011, a month after the Fukushima disaster, the FDA stopped testing Pacific fish for radiation.

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KYPa TIL that Mars has a flag, however it is not official in any legal sense, as the Outer Space Treaty forbids the appropriation of celestial bodies by any means
KOWK6 TIL William Shatner starred in a Horror movie in 1965 in which he spoke entirely in Esperanto
mxYXv TIL That during the Attack on Pearl Harbor, a Japanese pilot crash-landed on the island of Ni'ihau and with the help of Japanese-speaking residents he terrorized the island before being killed.
570P TIL an Austrian, claiming to be a member of The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, successfully convinced his gov’t that he had to wear a pasta strainer on his head for his driver’s license photo because it was his “religious headgear”. The gov’t made him undergo a psychiatric evaluation first.
R5gw TIL The US government, in 1962, brainstormed ways to get the American Population to go to war with Cuba. One idea was to fake the Hijacking of Airliners.