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TIL that there were only 21 days between the first atomic bomb test on July 16th and bombing Hiroshima on August 6th in the summer of 1945

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grdG8 TIL that the first semi-permanent population to live in Antarctica was American and British sealers who lived on the South Georgia Islands semi-annually starting in 1786.
0d9XL TIL The center point of the USA is ~20 miles (32 km) north of Belle Fourche, South Dakota. If it weren't for Hawaii and Alaska, it'd be ~ 2.6 miles (4.2 km) northwest of the center of Lebanon, Kensas
E1aQP TIL The Kuleshov effect is a film editing (montage) effect demonstrated by Soviet filmmaker Lev Kuleshov in the 1910s and 1920s. It is a mental phenomenon by which viewers derive more meaning from the interaction of two sequential shots than from a single shot in isolation.
8aK68 TIL Kareem Abdul-Jabber has written Sherlock Holmes novels and an episode of Veronica Mars
8QeX TIL the town of St. Peters, MO misunderstood new Federal requirements in 1994 and became the first town in the US to put up metric-only speed limit signs.