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TIL: Somebody is serving 30 years in the Supermax Prison for "plotting to build an industrial X-ray machine that would spew lethal doses of radiation powerful enough to kill people from a distance"

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75KO TIL Charles Darwin was the first person to put wheels on an office chair, creating the modern office chair.
R5nl TIL the amount of content on the World Wide Web that can’t be found by regular search engines is several orders of magnitude larger than the content that can be found.
8aLVa TIL About Washing Machine Charlie, a WW2 Japanese pilot who would fly by American bases at night with unsynchronized engines which would wake up the Americans.
d8597 TIL: Of Dilsey Pope a woman of colour from Columbus, Georgia, who owned her husband as a slave. During an argument she sold her husband to a neighbour, when she was ready to reconcile he wouldn't sell him back.
PYpJg TIL Abercrombie & Fitch offered $10,000 to cast members of "The Jersey Shore" if they'd agree to stop wearing the brand on the show