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TIL that a hydrogen bomb is actually a package of three bombs: One conventional bomb casing, one regular atomic fission bomb and one fusion bomb.

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Mer90 TIL that more people are buried in Rochester, NY's Mount Hope Cemetery than are currently alive in the city limits (350,000 buried to 210,000 alive).
kkZd TIL W.T. Stead, a Victorian investigative journalist writing about child prostitution, bought an underage sex slave to prove how easily it could be done. He was sent to prison.
rQge TIL that if Alaska were superimposed over the 48 contiguous states, it would stretch from the west coast to the east coast.
rNy9M TIL On 9/11 Astronaut Frank Culbertson was staying on the International Space Station and the only American off the planet. As soon as he learned of the attacks, he flew over New York City to document the event in photos and posted a public letter capturing his feelings of what happened
KOWJQ TIL that the borders of four Canadian provinces might meet at one point, but due to an inaccuracy in Nunavut's legal definition in 1999 it's still unclear