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TIL an architect tricked China into building a giant dong

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dA6d TIL the CIA lost a plutonium powered device in the glaciers that birth the Ganges River (Nanda Devi, 25643 ft) trying to spy on Chinese nuclear missile activity. There is still concern regarding the location and integrity of the radioactive material.
N7pyE TIL Kit Harrington showed up to his "Game of Thrones" audition with a black eye after getting into a fight at McDonald's the night before. His performance was so good the casting director didn't even notice.
wookE TIL that Winston Churchill repeatedly recommended to King George V that a battleship be named the Oliver Cromwell, despite Cromwell’s killing of a previous king
lokRN TIL that the computer chips that are put into spacecraft are not state of the art, but are so old as to be obsolete. Their known reliability makes up for it.
KYmnB TIL there is a version of Sesame Street in Israel for introducing kids, who are not fluent in Hebrew, to Judaism. It is called "Shalom Sesame."