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TIL "allergic queen" in playing cards is a nickname for a queen facing away from the flower she holds

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yQRbv TIL after the mistress of famed rocket engineer and occultist Jack Parsons began an affair with science fiction writer and eventual founder of Scientology L. Ron Hubbard, Parsons attempted to conjure a new girlfriend by masturbating onto "magical" tablets.
JX9k TIL the Tsar Bomba, the single most physically powerful device ever used by mankind, had a mushroom cloud measuring over 7 times the height of Mt Everest. The shockwave was measured circling the earth 3 times and it caused windowpanes to be partially broken at distances of 900 kilometres (560 mi)
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Vg74 TIL that only 171,300 tonnes of gold has ever been mined in human history (by comparison, The United States gets 5.6 million tonnes of aluminium a year alone) and that 85% of all gold ever found is still used.
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