Vale Jimmy Carter, the only US President to have been lowered into an utterly buggered Canadian nuclear reactor in an attempt to turn the sodding thing off.
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And if you read the details of his work within the NRX reactor, you'll learn that he's also the only US President for whom having a screw loose was a good thing.
You'd have gotten the pamphlet with the rules if you've ever cleared Canada Customs: we *do not ever* talk about the Clinton-Pickering Incident of 1997!
Thanks for the regular reminder that there's no such thing as common knowledge. We all have our areas where we assume "oh, everyone knows that!" but we're biased due to what our own interests are.
I deliberately play with this sort of stuff by alluding to it in passing, safe in the knowledge that a quick throwaway joke will likely send several people off down a thoroughly enjoyable rabbit hole...
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalk_River_Laboratories#1952_NRX_incident