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TIL when the Allies liberated Nazi Belgium, they discovered a large amount of thorium sent to Germany was not being used for weapons but rather radioactive toothpaste (museumofradium.co.uk)
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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago

He even had a note about the cost of a sex worker he had hired (who, in his opinion at least, had been too expensive; when questioned he responded that he had intended to bring this up with the relevant authorities but hadn’t got around to it yet).

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