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TIL In 2013 A meteor exploded in the atmosphere above Chelyabinsk Russia, that produced 26 to 33 times as much energy as the atomic bomb detonated at Hiroshima

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J1Oxv TIL that while studying for his American naturalization test, mathematician Kurt Gödel discovered a contradiction in the U.S. Constitution that could theoretically lead from a democracy to a dictatorship via a loophole in how amendment's are made.
8eX9Z TIL Harvard’s endowment Is bigger than the economies of half of the nations in the world
P1E9J TIL The first known case of mastitis (inflammation of the breast) dates back to the 5th century BCE. The specific case was when Empress Atossa of Persia had a mass successful exercised from her breast by the Greek slave Democedes.
v1Elj TIL: There is a book called "Shadows from the Walls of Death", a book that's not only extremely rare, but also very lethal due to its arsenic content.
LkkKP It depends on how they're deployed.