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TIL President Jimmy Carter was a Nuclear Engineer and visited Three Mile Island during the crisis there. He had previously helped dismantle a damaged reactor in Canada.

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rZKM TIL that Roald Dahl wrote the screenplay for the James Bond film “You Only Live Twice”
Mk60 TIL When Julius Caesar was captured and held hostage by pirates, he told them he would crucify them all personally. The pirates took it as a joke, but when the ransom was paid, Caesar raised a fleet, captured the pirates, and crucified them.
ne1bG TIL in the 1960s the US had developed a nuclear bomb small enough to be carried by one person, such as a paratrooper, and placed at an enemy target such as bridge, dam, etc.
WNK9 [TIL] When under stress, E. coli bacteria switch to more error-prone DNA management in order to increase the chance of receiving a mutation adaptive to the stress
QJlbk TIL MIT has genetically modified trees to glow in the dark in the hopes of creating a literally green source of light for the future.