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TIL that there were 17 natural nuclear reactors in Gabon.
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TIL: The Capacitor Plague, where capacitors had much higher failure rates between 1999 and 2007, as the formula was miscopied when a scientist stole it through corporate espionage in Japan. They returned to China and gave it to their previous employer, who put the faulty formula into production.
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TIL Neil Armstrong threatened legal action against his barber, for selling his hair to a collector for $3,000.
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TIL of Gennady Korotkevich, currently the world's top competitive programmer, derived Archimedes theory of buoyancy in a national programming competition in his 2nd grade.
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TIL: Americans never 'lost' their British accents. It was the Brits that adopted 'posh' in the early 1800s. American port cities emulated it for a while.
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TIL that the origins of driving on the left side go back to Medieval England where Knights would ride their horses on the left side of the road so if they encountered an enemy their sword hand would be on the correct side - nearly all countries that drive on the left now were once English colonies