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TIL There have been 18 incidences of theft or loss of highly enriched uranium and plutonium confirmed by the International Atomic Energy Agency in the last 12 years.

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d8ax9 TIL Drowsy driving is as dangerous as Drunk driving.
oeRL TIL that there is a term for a family with no children, DINK, Dual Income No Kids. In the show Fairly Odd Parents, the Turner’s are often jealous of their rich, childless neighbours, the Dinklebergs.
nW8NW TIL, at first, Andrew Johnson wanted the Confederate leadership to be tried for treason, but Ulysses S. Grant threatened to resign and Johnson backed down.
VML80 TIL that Hokusai, the artist behind the famous 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa', illustrated a series of shunga erotica called 'Dreams of the Fisherman's Wife' which includes vivid depictions of women having sex with octopus. Published in 1814
j6Xop TIL the first successful C-section (where both the baby and mother survived) was performed in 1500 in Switzerland by a sow gelder named Jakob Nufer on his wife, who went on to have five more children after.