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TIL that Brazil nuts used to be known as “nigger toes”

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l7YOB TIL There is a total of 184 birds in the 12 Days of Christmas.
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yQkBM TIL the steel shipping container is one of the most commonly underrated but significantly revolutionary inventions that has led to the creation of the modern global economy
xVGKg TIL that in 1940, on the way to their invasion or Ardennes, France, the massive German army got into a major traffic jam. French reconnaissance pilots spotted it and reported it to French High Command who promptly said "that can't be true" and ignored it. An aerial attack could have ended the war
8emdX TIL that in 1958, a U.S. Air Force bomber accidentally dropped a nuclear bomb on South Carolina. The bomb didn’t have its nuclear core installed, but when it hit the ground, its conventional explosives went off. The blast injured six people and damaged several buildings in the area.