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TIL the concept and name for the atom bomb was first conceived of by H. G. Wells in the 1914 novel The World Set Free. The story may have influenced the development of the real life weapons, as physicist Leo Szilard had read the novel before conceiving of the neutron chain reaction.

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Ooja6 TIL: In 1841 during a naval battle between Argentina and Uruguay, the ship from Uruguay ran out of cannonballs. The captain ordered his men to shove the hard balls of cheese they had onboard into the cannons and to fire those. The cheese tore holes in the Argentine ship's sails and killed 2 sailors.
QNNn6 TIL that pilot and co-pilot of a plane eat different meals for meal service in case of food poisoning
Me0AB TIL Tori Amos, at age 2, could reproduce pieces of music on piano she had only heard once. At 3 years old, she was composing her own songs on piano. She has described seeing music as structures of light since early childhood, an experience consistent with chromesthesia.
pY57Q TIL that in 2006, a woman named Edith Macefield turned down a reported offer of $1 million to sell her 108-year-old farmhouse to make way for a commercial development in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. Instead, the five-story project was built surrounding her house.
16WeP TIL: During WW2, Japan attempted to invade the continental U.S. with balloons.