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

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epgPE TIL the 1992 show "Australia's Naughtiest Home Videos" so offended the owner of the network that he called the studio and cancelled it minutes into the first episode
neRQr TIL that when Berlins infamous Spandau Prisons last inmate, Nazi Rudolf Hess, died, the entire site was demolished, ground into powder and dumped in the sea to stop it becoming a Nazi shrine. A supermarket for British Troops was put in it's place, who nicknamed it 'Hessco's' (after Tesco's)
wlXo TIL Hunter S. Thompson was part of an appeal which led to an overturned conviction in the case of a woman sentenced to life in prison without parole for the felony murder of a police officer, a crime which took place while she was locked in the back of a squad car!
0dbBM TIL the 1944 Nobel Prize went to male German physicist Otto Hahn solo for the discovery of nuclear fission, despite the fact he had done the work in collaboration with Lise Meitner, a German Jewish woman forced into exile who had in fact even been the first to use the term 'fission' and explain it
ADRL7 TIL that the lead sound from Kygo’s Hit song Firestone can be made on the Novation Peak synthesiser. Watch the video and you will learn how its made.