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TIL that there’s a small college in Oregon with its own nuclear reactor, run by undergraduate students. It has more female reactor operators than all the other research reactors in the world …combined.

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8elEa TIL of Eastern Air Lines Flight 212 which crashed into terrain on September 11, 1974, killing 72. Among them was the VP for academic affairs of the Medical University of South Carolina and two of his sons - the father and brothers of future tv personality Stephen Colbert.
x8ED TIL Sharon Stone for may years maintained that she had an IQ of 148 and was a member of Mensa. She finally admitted in 2002 that she was not, and had never been a member of Mensa.
4pw TIL - The Indiana Jones theme has secret lyrics
awOXA TIL Georgy Zhukov, "hero of the Soviet Union", and victorious general of the Battle of Berlin in 1945, always kept a small bag of clothes and belongings in case he was arrested by his own country's KGB. He did this until 1957.
Lgov TIL Michael C. Hall wore a wig for season 5 of Dexter because of hair loss due to chemotherapy for his Hodgkins Lymphoma