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TIL the Manhattan Project was leaked 1500 times during WWII

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Bg1db TIL the largest red diamond in the world (the rarest color) was not found by miners but by a farmer. It weighs one gram and sold for eight million dollars.
ajoJ TIL that NERF is an acronym for Non-Expanding Recreational Foam.
vPjGr TIL the Beechcraft KingAir outsold all of its competitors… combined.
ORBL TIL the Black Death arrived in Norway on a ghost ship that just so happened become beached near a major port. Even tho all the crew had died the surviving rats and flees managed to spread the disease throughout the country and later to Sweeden and Russia.
X0YjE TIL that Jeanne de Clisson (1300-1359) was a pirate and privateer, called the Lioness of Brittany. She embarked in revenge for the execution of her husband, ordered by the French King. She sailed across the English channel looking for French commerce ships and called her flagship "My Revenge".