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TIL in order to read Marie Curie’s radioactive research papers, you have to sign a paper saying it’s your own fault if you get radioactive yourself.

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1aAdd TIL Ron Howard stated that, after the first test preview of the film Apollo 13, one of the comment cards indicated "total disdain"; the audience member had written that it was a "typical Hollywood" ending and that the crew would never have survived.
rD44 TIL Christine Cavanaugh, voice of Babe the pig, Chuckie from Rugrats & Dexter from Dexter’s Laboratory died in 2014 of undisclosed causes
kJl61 TIL that in his will, George Washington left directions to emancipate all of the enslaved people that he owned after the death of Martha Washington. On January 1, 1801, all of the enslaved people he owned were freed. The Emancipation Proclamation was put into act on January 1, 1863, 62 years later.
kJwe1 TIL in 2019, a former US spy killed a British teen by driving on the wrong side of the road in the UK. She was granted diplomatic immunity, fled the UK, and never returned. It took 3 years for her to be sentenced and she received no jail time.
8a8WP TIL that Necco Wafers (Formerlay called 'Hub Wafers'), are so old they were carried by Union soldiers in the civil war, as well as American soldiers in WWII. Necco claims to be the oldest American candy company.