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TIL South Africa is the first country to voluntarily dismantle its own nuclear weapons it had developed itself

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0oYR TIL Drug overdose deaths, driven largely by prescription drug overdose deaths, are now the leading cause of injury death in the United States – surpassing motor vehicle crashes.
lw8N TIL Two families escaped over the Berlin Wall by building a hot air balloon. A mechanic and a mason, used their mechanical know-how to build a hot air balloon engine out of old propane cylinders. Their wives pieced together a makeshift balloon from scraps of canvas and old bed sheets.
RAp6 TIL - Michael Jackson was the one to suggest to Queen that “Another one Bites The Dust” (written by Queen bassist John Deacon) should be released as a single. Even though Queen didn’t think it would do that well.
OdL7 TIL In 2007 six live nuclear warheads were mistakenly loaded onto a B-52H bomber and flown from Minot, North Dakota to Barksdale, Louisiana. For a whole 36 hours they went unaccounted for.
kyEW TIL the first AMD-only motherboards were in plain white boxes, with no manufacturer name and were never promoted because they were afraid of Intel’s response. Only MSI stood up for AMD and proudly announced their motherboard.