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TIL that David Hahn, the "Radioactive Boy Scout" was arrested in 2007 when someone saw him stealing a smoke detector. A search of his apartment found 16 more. Smoke detectors were one of the items he used to get the radioactive material to build the breeder reactor in his mom's shed in 1994.

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oRmn7 TIL that the very first "crowd wave" at a sports event ocurred spontaneously. At a Colorado Rockies NHL ice hockey game in 1980, a section of the crowd rose to their feet slightly later than the section beside them. This continued around the area to complete a "wave", without having been prompted.
5Vr9 TIL of an American soldier who put up such a fight in captivity so well the Viet Cong executed him out of frustration. He was last heard singing “God Bless America”. He was later awarded the Medal of Honor
B8ny TIL the Supreme Court’s ruling on FCC v. AT&T, which determined that corporations don’t have the same rights as people, ends “We trust that AT&T will not take it personally”
oBxAW TIL that when you die you can have your remains turned in to a diamond. Carbon is extracted from your cremated ashes or hair and compressed to almost 900,000 PSI and subjected to temperatures of 2,500 degrees Celsius to form a bonding of the atoms.
m40E TIL the KISS logo was hand-drawn by the band’s vocalist/guitarist Paul Stanley on his kitchen table in 1973, and the imperfect lettering has only changed in Germany where it was said to glorify the Nazi SS logo.