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TIL in 2003, Raiders player Barret Robbins 'Missed the Super Bowl to Party in Tijuana'

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b9m50 TIL the American B83 Nuclear Bomb has been studied for use in the destruction/deterrence of asteroids on a crash course with Earth. They are 80x more powerful than the Little Boy bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
nWKb TIL, that during WWII, an American amphibious tank rammed a US destroyer while en route to the beach, “probably the only instance of a warship being rammed at sea by a tank”
QJ4bd TIL that on April Fool's Day in 1974, a man in Alaska pranked an entire town by setting a bunch of tiles alight in a dormant volcano, creating a smoke plume that caused a lot of commotion and ended up with a US Coast Guard helicopter being sent to investigate.
JYJxv TIL Alice Lidell, inspiration for Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", once met Peter Llewellyn Davies, one of the brothers who inspired J.M. Barrie's "Peter Pan".
vPNJB TIL the domestic cat (Felis catus) is linked to the extinction of at least 63 vertebrate species (40 birds, 2 reptiles, and 21 mammals).