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Til that the oldest book is a 1180 year old Jewis prayer book

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0lvN TIL in 1962 the USSR decided to test a 300kt nuclear bomb in space over a populated area, the resulting EMP fused 350 miles of telephone lines, shut down 621 miles of buried power cables and burnt down a power station. The following year they signed & ratified a treaty banning tests in outer space.
9wZOG TIL that only 6 U.S presidents had made a conscientious decision to not run for a second term.
MK10 TIL the US Democratic party’s symbol is a donkey because during the 1828 Presidential election, Democrat Andrew Jackson’s opponents referred to him as a “jackass”. Jackson liked the name and used the jackass as a symbol.
dpD9 TIL: For the first time since 1974, nobody climbed to the top of Mount Everest last year.
Lvpm TIL Charlie Chaplin made his movie mocking Hitler with his own money because Hollywood was afraid of losing money if they took a stand.