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TIL that the N1, the rocket developed for the Soviet moon landing program, had a missile variant designed to deliver 17 multi-megaton nuclear warheads, essentially destroying the entire United States in a single launch

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OoAW7 TIL that Karl Berg found after recording parrots, that parent parrots name their children and those names are used through life.
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