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TIL: Kodak, the camera company, had a secret nuclear reactor containing weapons grade, highly enriched uranium that the government didn’t know about

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47XJ TIL almost every major porn site including youporn, redtube and many others are all run by 1 company called Mindgeek.
GKX1 TIL that following the death of Ayrton Senna an estimated 3 million people lined the streets of São Paulo in what is “widely accepted as the largest recorded gathering of mourners in modern times”
N7EDQ TIL After flying 65 combat missions over North Vietnam (144 total), Guion Bluford became the first African American to qualify as a NASA astronaut in 1979. He also became the first African American in space in 1983, ultimately logging over 688 hours across four Space Shuttle missions.
W7BoX TIL Despite being the sixth largest country, mainland Australia has no land antipodes (if you dug through the earth anywhere in Australia, you would reach open ocean)
b6G9 TIL that more than 80 percent of the Earth’s natural forests have already been destroyed