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TIL the Higgs Boson was originally nicknamed “the Goddamn Particle” not “the God Particle”.

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4XymR TIL about a conspiracy theory about an ad of a dice game that was thought to have been a coded warning of the upcoming attack on Pearl Harbor
x6k41 TIL about the Davy Crockett - a tripod mounted gun developed by the US during the Cold War. It fired a tactical nuclear warhead with a range of up to 4 miles and a yield that caused fatal radiation within a radius of a quarter of mile
ANda4 TIL: Nearly all adaptations of Gullivers Travels only focus on his journeys to the lands of the very tiny and very huge people. The novel contains more adventures - a flying island of scientists, and an island of sentient horses.
PXBJ TIL Former Pantera rhythm guitarist Terry Glaze quit, citing that Dimebag Darrell’s talent seemed to make his guitar playing useless.
awR59 TIL that during the American Civil War, several divisions of the confederate army had a large snowball fight. It started when a couple of hundred men from Texas plotted a friendly fight with men from Arkansas, which spiralled into a brawl involving 9,000 soldiers of the Army of Northern Virginia.