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TIL In 1957, five US Air Force officers volunteered to stand at 'ground zero' directly under a nuclear explosion 18,500 feet above their heads to 'prove how safe it was'

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Nw7N TIL that the reason all videos are subtitled on Netflix is because the National Association for the Deaf filed a class-action lawsuit against them in 2010.
JGO1 TIL that Tonga, a nation consisting of over 1200 islands in the Pacific, has never been conquered or colonized ever and is ruled by a King that traces his ancestry back 1000 years.
05yR TIL Robin Williams was agreed to be paid $75,000 for voicing the Genie in Aladin, which went on to gross over $200 million domestically. Disney later sent him a late Picasso painting (estimated at the time to be worth $1 million) as a way of thanking him for his work.
6E7EJ TIL Computer Programmer Ray Tomlinson is credited with inventing using the "@" symbol to send emails and being the first person to send an email in 1971
R5D76 TIL in the Netherlands there is a chain of restaurants called 'Brownies & Downies'. The majority of the work force has Down syndrome (link in Dutch).