› added 5 years ago

258

TIL that in 1966 after failing for 3 years to extinguish a gas well fire Soviet authorities decided to use a 30kt atomic bomb. It was detonated at a depth of 1,500m, crushing the well and extinguishing the flames in seconds. Following this success the same technique was use on 4 other well fires.

Read more energyglobalnews.com

via reddit.com

VM770 TIL that Captain America actually "took part" in the Second World War since the character was used as propaganda to motivate people into buying war bonds
VkEk TIL there is a mountain in Russia, called Magnitogorsk, made almost entirely of iron with an estimated 7-10 Billion pounds of Iron Ore
neZDW TIL that Uzbekistan and Liechtenstein are the only double-landlocked countries in the world. In order to get to the ocean from these countries you have to cross 2 national borders.
nDlb TIL that Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined
BgZVb TIL The Carrington Event (1859) was the most intense recorded geomagnetic storm, it created auroras globally and lit telegraph stations on fire