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TIL That Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were the first Americans to be tired and executed for stealing nuclear documents from the US Government during peacetime.

by whatilearned September 7, 2022, 1:21 am

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People who have worked around nuclear weapons. Have you licked it when no one was looking?

by QuestionGuy September 6, 2022, 3:45 pm

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TIL that in the 1960s and 1970s energy companies experimented with underground nuclear explosions in Western Colorado to release oil shale and natural gas deposits. Project Rulison involved a 40-kiloton nuclear bomb detonated underground in what is now a stretch of I-70.

by whatilearned September 5, 2022, 4:55 pm

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TIL The U.S. Military Is Missing Six Nuclear Weapons

by whatilearned September 2, 2022, 5:09 pm

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TIL that MRI machines were originally called NMRI machines but they were forced to drop the first word – “Nuclear” – due to its negative connotations associated by the public.

by whatilearned September 1, 2022, 5:15 pm

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TIL on March 11, 1958, the US Air Force accidently dropped a nuclear bomb on a farm in Mars Bluff, South Carolina

by whatilearned August 28, 2022, 2:25 pm

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TIL ‘metathesis’ is the term used to describe the transposition of sounds or syllables in a word or words in a (spoken or written) sentence. Examples in English are ‘nucular’ for ‘nuclear’ and ‘perscription’ for ‘prescription’.

by whatilearned August 21, 2022, 2:26 am

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The FBI is coming to raid your home in one hour, where do you hide the nuclear launch code papers?

by QuestionGuy August 14, 2022, 12:26 pm

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TIL the set for the 1989 movie “The Abyss” was constructed inside an abandoned nuclear power plant, modified to hold water. When filming wrapped, the set was just left there rather than deconstructed. It remained there until 2007 when it was finally demolished.

by whatilearned August 6, 2022, 4:40 am

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The lost nuclear bombs that no one can find

by HistoryBuff August 5, 2022, 10:00 pm

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TIL of the Price–Anderson Nuclear Industries Indemnity Act (1957) that put a limit on compensations following a large scale non-military nuclear-catastrophe. It was ratified to lower the risk for private development and use of nuclear technology.

by whatilearned August 5, 2022, 12:53 pm

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TIL That France finished building a nuclear reactor in 1985 that never entered operation. The project cost over $4 Billion dollars, and the old nuclear facility is now a theme park.

by whatilearned August 5, 2022, 3:04 am

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