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TIL that most Americans spend less than $9 per year on NASA through personal income tax

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X05Z6 TIL in 1954, father of the hydrogen bomb Edward Teller presented Sundial, a conceptual hydrogen bomb with a yield of 10 gigatons. Under the right conditions, this would start fires as far as 250 miles, an area the size of France. Work continued for several years after, with a test planned for 1956.
enOE TIL Many people killed in crowd disasters die standing up
BrMVD TIL the first Zildjian cymbals were created in 1618 by Avedis Zildjian, an alchemist who was looking for a way to turn base metal into gold. He made an alloy of tin, copper, and silver into a sheet of metal, which could make musical sounds without shattering.
woglP TIL that Susan Thompson Buffett, Warren Buffett's first wife, was the 153rd richest person in the world when she passed away in 2004. She owned 2.2 percent of Berkshire Hathaway worth about $3 billion at the time of her death.
neQbd TIL how Pringles are made. They start off with potato dough, the dough is cut into potato-dough cookies, molded into curves, deep-fried, blown-dried, salted, stacked into cans and sold.