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TIL that before the world's first nuclear explosion, the chance that the earth would be vaporized by the explosion was estimated at "slightly less than 3 in 1,000,000".

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x5x0 TIL that an analysis of Justin Bieber’s Twitter followers found that around 50 percent of them are probably fake. The criteria for determining if an account was fake included whether it was used to tweet phrases such as “diet,” “make money” and “work from home.”
l75V7 TIL the "blue raspberry" flavor is actually just a artificial raspberry flavoring. The widespread practice of coloring it blue is attributed to the ICEE brand, which wanted its signature flavors, including red cherry, to match its logo.
1ajo8 TIL that Mesopotamians figured out that the Earth orbited the sun about 1,700 years before Copernicus and Newton. They also figured out that the moon causes the tides and that the Earth rotates around its axis.
XK9k TIL Once during Ramadan, Condoleezza Rice was invited by Muammar Gaddafi to dinner at his private kitchen. After dinner, Gaddafi told her he had made a videotape for her. It was a collection of photos of Rice with world leaders set to the music of a song called ‘Black Flower in the White House,’.
KyRw TIL Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club was initially published as a 7-page short story – which exists as chapter 6 in the eventual novel.