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TIL "Cart-Starts"(tiny explosives) are used to make a launch quicker for B-52s

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J1Rdl TIL: That in 1953 the town of Neversink, New York was completely submerged underwater after dams for what would become the Neversink Reservoir were finished.
xVl4D TIL the Nazis took over a high-end Berlin brothel commonly used by prominent Germans and foreign dignitaries, replaced all the prostitutes with spies, and continued business until a British air raid demolished the building in 1942
o9go TIL The shower of sparks seen during Space Shuttle launches are often assumed to be engine igniters but they’re actually part of the Hydrogen Burnoff System; a safety system designed to consume unburned hydrogen so it doesn’t damage other parts of the shuttle.
YpM1W TIL that Charlie Chaplin claimed to have slept with over 2,000 women, and his partners have described him as ‘a human sex machine’ and ‘hung like a horse’. He had a party trick where he would impersonate the orgasms of famous actresses.
Br0yx TIL that it is the 149th anniversary of the District of Columbia Organic Act of 1871 signed into law by U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant