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TIL that Davy Crockett wasn't just a person known for the Alamo but also the name for a nuclear recoilless gun capable of launching a nuclear round with a yield of 0.02 kilotonnes.

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9odm TIL physicist Bernard Waldman witnessed the bombing of Hiroshima, as a camera operator on the observation aircraft. He was equipped with a special high-speed movie camera with six seconds of film to record the blast. Unfortunately, Waldman forgot to open the camera shutter, and no film was exposed.
x6ab7 TIL that most OTC medicine bottles have a built in easy off cap. It is a "smaller" cap underneath that you pry off.
4WRw TIL BMW was forced to recall a female-voiced navigation system on its 5 Series cars in the late 1990s after being flooded with calls from German men saying they refused to take directions from a woman.
xVL57 TIL “night owls" people have different brain functions than “early morning” people. That difference is the reason why we should rethink the 9-to-5 workday, say researchers.
M70n0 TIL that Thomas Edison developed the concrete to build Yankee Stadium in 1922 before his company went bankrupt shortly after completion.