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TIL that spent fuel from nuclear reactors is used to make household fire alarms

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VMyZZ TIL annually since 1993, Literary Review magazine has presented the Bad Sex in Fiction Award to the author who has written the worst sex scene in a novel. Morrissey won in 2015, and in 2008 John Updike received a lifetime achievement award.
R7kJQ TIL: Trapped behind enemy lines during the Korean War Chester Puller Stated, "We’ve been looking for the enemy for several days now. We’ve finally found them. We’re surrounded. That simplifies our problem of finding these people and killing them." He and his men survived.
wo0g8 TIL that the town where Michelangelo was born was called Caprese
QJrjM TIL that in Ireland you cant own a lake or river but by owning the land on both sides you can own the bed and the airspace above and completely control access to it
VBYlG TIL America own an uninhabited zone called Howland and Baker Island, halfway between Australia and Hawaii. It observes it's own time zone called "Anywhere on Earth". A day has passed everywhere on Earth according to this time. Amelia Earhart was trying to reach here in 1937 before she disappeared.