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TIL: There is a Single Street in a Residential Neighborhood in Newport Beach, CA that is Zoned to Allow Kennels to Operate

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8aM14 TIL that a $372 million dollar nuclear fusion facility in USA, using one of the most advanced and powerful magnetic mirrors at the time, was closed just a day after being constructed due to budget cuts and sat unused for a year before being formally cancelled.
X0PEj TIL the first recorded incident of "mooning" was in 80 AD. A Roman soldier showed his buttocks to Jewish pilgrims gathered in Jerusalem for Passover. This led to riots and the deaths of ten thousand people.
5L7n TIL astronauts vote from space
YQoZ TIL a systematic review of homeopathic medicine found it was effective in treating 0 out of 68 illnesses and was essentially just a placebo.
mNNo TIL Samuel L Jackson was part of the Black Power movement but before Jackson could become involved with any significant armed confrontation, his mother sent him to Los Angeles after the FBI told her that he would die within a year if he remained with the Black Power movement.