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TIL in 1962 the US detonated a nuke, Starfish Prime, in space to clear out Van Allen belt radiation (making Apollo missions safer) and for research. It took out part of Hawaii's electrical grid, several satellites, and made the Van Allen radiation much worse. A planned further test was cancelled.

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7bgO TIL They are still making The Land Before Time movies
V7RZ TIL that Eddie Vedder wrote ‘Jeremy’ after reading a brief newspaper article about a 15-year-old boy in Texas who brought a gun to class and shot himself, in front of his teacher and thirty students. Vedder wanted to show how even such a dramatic gesture would only get a few words in the daily news.
X0JoR TIL while the official lethal dose of caffeine is over 12 cups of coffee, it's possible to die from just 3 strong caffeinated drinks
VBmg4 TIL: The band "The Dandy Warhols" promised in one of their songs on their 2003 album "Welcome To The Monkey House" that when Michael Jackson died, they would cover the song "Blackbird" by The Beatles. They released it as a single 5 months after his death in 2009.
loBm1 TIL The Indian village of Meghalaya, the wettest place on Earth, has trained branches of rubber trees to create natural bridges over rainy valleys.