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TIL: There is a glass toaster called the Bugatti Toaster that will be released in the US next year

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5Yr7B TIL about portable nukes in the 1960s, intended for US Soldiers to parachute with into Soviet-occupied Europe and manually (suicidally) detonate.
8eG1Z TIL that since the introduction of basketball ball to the Olympics, the US has won 80% of men's gold medals. The only year they didn't win any medal was the boycotted 1980 Moscow Olympics
PJ6E TIL the last sonata Beethoven composed has little to do with classical music and more to do with with jazz and boogie-woogie, about a 100 years in advance; and he was completely deaf when he wrote it
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