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TIL the Soviets were at one stage worried about the Space Shuttle being used to dive bomb Nuclear bombs onto Moscow

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0xYy TIL In 1869 an atheist built a 10-foot tall petrified man statue and buried it in Cardiff, New York, to sucker Christians into thinking it was a long lost Biblical giant. They paid to view. He got rich.
7lvM TIL that in December 2012 a complex systems scientist walked up to the podium at the American Geophysics Union to present a paper. The paper was titled, “Is Earth Fucked?” His answer was: “Yeah. Pretty much.”
mXLY TIL there is a clock being built inside of a mountain that is designed to tick for 10,000 years, and play a unique melody that never repeats itself.
LQlAv TIL that in 1980, the city of Philadelphia became the only North American city in which all four major sports teams played for their respective championships in one year (NBA/NHL/MLB/NFL). Although the Phillies were the only team to win the championship that year.
ykww TIL that during the civil war, the Union counterfeited Confederate currency and deliberately gave it away in the South to cause massive inflation