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TIL Jimmy Carter was the first president to be born in a hospital

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v90D TIL of the 1987 Goiânia accident in Brazil. Two scrap merchants stole equipment left in an abandoned hospital and inadvertently released radioactive material from a radiotherapy device, resulting in 249 contaminations and four deaths
vDk4 TIL that the Soviet tenor Victor Ivanovich Nikitin was so good, that when he sang to the Soviet troops at the Eastern front in WWII, German troops on the other side stopped shooting to listen to him.
b6RXj TIL John Hughes wrote the script for film The Breakfast Club (1985) in just two days.
GYmAG TIL dating is a game of probability: if you want the best chance at finding the perfect one, date and reject the first 37% (1/e) of potential suitors and pick the next person who is better than anyone you have dated before.
Y7XVr TIL that the 727 (N467US) that was hijacked by DB Cooper in 1971 was later sold in 1984 and wound up being used for JANET flights from Las Vegas to Tonopah and Area 51 during the testing and production of the F117A Nighthawk program.