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TIL that "world’s leading source of high-grade uranium" was accidentally found in 1966 by a bunch of oil dudes who took a Geiger counter on a plane so they could write off their fishing trips as business expenses.

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p8jw4 TIL of Aphonopelma johnnycashi, a Tarantula species discovered in 2015 near Folsom Prison California named after Johnny Cash, whose song, "Folsom Prison Blues", made it famous. The males of the species are usually black coinciding with Cash's nickname "The Man in Black".
bO9a TIL Weird Al Yankovic skipped two grades and was Valedictorian of his senior class
nebwd TIL In 1903, H. Nelson Jackson, Sewall Crocker, and their dog Bud made the first successful transcontinental automobile trip. The journey was arduous and slow, but their trip made headlines wherever they went, proving that long-distance road travel was a real—if expensive and difficult—possibility.
x6J6w TIL that soldiers in WWI wore medieval body armor (which hadn't been used for 400 years) to protect themselves during close-quarters trench warfare.
WkYxY TIL Chicago’s O'Hare airport is mowed by a team of 40 goats. No humans