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TIL that one of the founders of the House Un-American Activities Committee, Samuel Dickstein, was himself a Soviet agent during the late 1930s.

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0wwLL No, the little mouse inside it does not start scrambling around.
RYA1 TIL that the safety system for the Chicago Pile, the first nuclear reactor, consisted of a man with an ax and a man with a bucket. In the case of a runaway reaction, one would cut a hemp rope attached to a control rod, and the other would throw a bucket of concentrated cadmium nitride over the pile
VMdKp TIL that there are a couple different ways to do nipple reconstruction. One of those ways is to use your labia.
WkEmX TIL the late Nintendo Executive Gunpei Yokoi who invented and designed the original Control Pad, the Virtual Boy, the Game Boy, Metroid and Kid Icarus was originally hired as a maintenance man in 1965.
yVeVe TIL director Brad Bird was inspired to make the movie "The Iron Giant" after his sister Susan was murdered by her husband, who shot her. His pitch was "What if a gun had a soul, and didn't want to be a gun?