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TIL the “world’s worst nuclear disaster” was the result of two individuals stealing a radiotherapy source - and using it’s core as jewelry.

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4wrX TIL that today in Confederate Park, Fort Mill SC, there is a monument to “faithful slaves” that fought for the “principles of our Confederate States of America.”
Zp8ga TIL about “The deadly accordion wars of Lesotho” where you can be murdered for playing music. “After one Famo musician allegedly shot another in 2004, a cycle of revenge developed, fuelled by poisonous lyrics in songs.” This has now led to Lesotho having the sixth-highest homicide rate in the world.
krd1 TIL that after his mother died Shaka Zulu had pregnant women and their husbands killed, and also had cows slaughtered so that their calves would know what losing a mother felt like
pDg4 TIL in 2011 the Detroit Symphony Orchestra was in a deep financial crisis. Kid Rock, in what he called “the best drunk move I ever made,” decided to throw a benefit concert. He raised over one million dollars for the symphony and helped save classical music in Detroit.
W7EYX TIL Aristotle’s views on women are so expansive that they get their own wiki page, He basically asserted that women should be subservient to men to the point where they shouldn’t even be allowed to eat as much food. He also claimed that women were basically incomplete men, and thus inferior