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TIL Five Men Agreed To Stand Directly Under An Exploding Nuclear Bomb

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Oom54 TIL Robert Downey Jr, after Iron Man 3, said he'd only do Iron Man 4 if Mel Gibson directs it
GAmG1 TIL That until 2022, the Japanese Public School System forced schoolgirls in Japan were forced to wear specific colours of underwear and were forced to have dyed black hair in school.
OOQa TIL in 2011 researchers from the Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois developed a way to hack into voting machines and modify votes from up to half a mile away. They showed that this could be done using $26 worth of electronics and an 8th-grade science education.
6LrZ TIL a 87 year old Baltimore woman locked a police officer in her basement when he tried searching her home without a warrant. She sued and won a $95,000 settlement.
VMAg0 TIL that Australia's "Aged Dependent Relative Visa", where a person applies for their aging foreign parents to migrate to Australia, has an approximate 50 year waiting period and costs $6,100, making it virtually impossible to actually qualify.