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TIL of a cobalt bomb, a nuclear weapon designed to maximize nuclear fallout, able to potentially wipe out human life.

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PkwO TIL that Papa John sold his Camaro Z-28 when he was young to help his family’s struggling tavern. In 2009 he found the owner and bought the car back for $250,000. His car was stolen in Detroit this month, but has since been found.
ZBkp TIL On August 1st each year the people of Warsaw, Poland stop everything to pay homage to the Warsaw Uprising the largest rebellion of WWII. Which cost cost over 200,000 lives and destruction of the capital.
QNyV6 TIL singer-songwriter Jewel had a relationship with actor Sean Penn. He sought her out with a phone call to her father's home in Alaska after watching her television debut on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" in 1995. Jewel's father assumed it was a prank call.
1am7P TIL Ken Livingstone was the last leader of the Greater London Council, which was abolished in 1986. He was then elected mayor of London in 2000, which included effectively the same job. He began his victory speech with "As I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted 14 years ago..."
7rekp TIL the first weight-loss surgery was to the king of Leon, Spain during the 10th century. His morbid obesity made him lose the throne so his grandmother escorted him to Cordoba where a doctor sewed his lips shut, his food only coming from a straw. He lost half his weight and reclaimed the throne.