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TIL: If you have IQ of 69,it indicates intellectual disability
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TIL that when filming Top Gear's "Bolivia Special", producer Andy Wilman received a death threat from a local drug lord, when he went to the drug lord's house to ask him to turn down his loud music so the crew could get some sleep in their nearby hotel
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TIL Cleopatra was not actually Egyptian.the last queen of Egypt wasn't born in Egypt. As best as Historians can tell, Cleopatra VII (that's her formal name) was Greek. She was a descendant of Alexander the Great's Macedonian general Ptolemy.
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TIL the US AirForce almost lost several nuclear bombs near a village in Spain in 1966.
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TIL There were lots of sketchy criticality accidents during the Manhattan Project and other early nuclear weapons research. E.g. One scientist died after dropping a Tungsten Carbide brick onto a Plutonium sphere which reflected more neutrons back onto it increasing the radiation
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TIL Cows moo in “regional accents”