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TIL: that the flag of Mozambique has an AK-47 on it.
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TIL that the first man to survive going down Niagara Falls in a barrel died after slipping on an orange peel.
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TIL When a Canadian nuclear reactor melted down in the 1950s, Jimmy Carter was one of the Americans sent to help. His crew built an exact replica of the reactor on a Tennis court to practice disassembling it, and had to enter and take apart the reactor one piece at a time, 90 seconds at a time.
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TIL that in 1961 the Italian artist Piero Manzoni filled 90 tin cans with his feces, called it “Artist’s Shit” and sold them according to their equivalent weight in gold.
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TIL after Larry Bird left Indiana University, he worked collecting trash in his home town. When leaving for college a 2nd time, this time at Indiana State, he told his co-workers, "I'll be going up there to get a little education. Then I'll be back and be boss of you guys."
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TIL that "pizza farms" exist, where they grow all the ingredients of a pizza in one convenient location. Most are in the Midwest.