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TIL: Britain does not allow reporting on campaigns while polls are open, and limits coverage to factual, noncontroversial accounts, or the weather.

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yEVw TIL of Green Run - a secret Air Force experiment that released Hanford’s largest single dose of radioactive iodine-131. Scientists let 7,000-12,000 curies into the air, traveling as far as 200 miles. For scale, Three Mile Island released an estimated 15-24 curies, Chernobyl 35-49 million curies
md5p TIL that San Marino holds a national holiday whenever their national football team scores a goal.
5Y6gP TIL Napoleon's presence on a battlefield was considered equivalent to 40,000 men by the Duke of Wellington
4Xg6b TIL in 1961, Marvel introduced the Fantastic Four. They were considered unconventional at the time because they were flawed characters who squabbled, held grudges, and sought celebrity.
y1rl TIL that William Marston was a polyamorous psychologist and inventor whose wife, Elizabeth Holloway, inspired him to create a female superhero who triumphed via love (Wonder Woman), and the affinity for metallic bracelets worn by their partner, Olivia Byrne, inspired Wonder Woman’s iconic bracelets.