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TIL the Manhattan Project was leaked 1500 times during WWII

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a8GKJ TIL the 2004 Indonesian Earthquake had the equivalent energy of 23,000 Hiroshima explosions
mLkp TIL of Alex the parrot,the only non human animal to ever ask an existential question
5lrp TIL that the Foo Fighters played an entire tour of fan’s garages in 2011.
E5Po TIL that there are 112 (and possibly more) ways of proving the Pythagoras Theorem.
ADEEB TIL that one of the 2 co-owners/founders of Macy's died on the Titanic, along with his wife, because he refused to board rescue ships before women and children were helped. His wife chose to stay behind because she did not want to abandon her husband, so they both died together aboard the Titanic.