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TIL During WW2, a Cambridge professor accidentally dropped the entire United Kingdom supply of plutonium (10mg) onto a table. He sawed a hole around the spill and burned that bit of table, recovering 9mg from the Ashes. He was found out because he was too tired to fix the table.

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