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690QJ TIL the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress' official nickname is "BUFF" which is an acronym for "Big Ugly Fat Fucker"
j6y4v Today I learned the holes in Swiss cheese come from a specific bacteria called Propionibacterium freudenrichii subspecies shermanii, which converts milk into carbon dioxide at the warm temperature of 70°F; when the cheese cools, the air bubbles are left behind
8e7L8 TIL in 2005 the US Navy conducted a test called SinkEx on how an enemy might sink one of its Supercarriers could. After four weeks of firing, the carrier remained and had to be sunk by hand-placed explosives