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TIL about the Cloud Act that enables Intelligence Offices to obtain any data from all US based social network

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bx0Z TIL in 1952, 1000 british men were ordered to strip to the waist and watch Britain’s first nuclear bomb test from a few miles away. Now, the few survivors and their children have severe health problems.
1awZr TIL Fred and Wilma Flintstone were the first couple to be shown in bed together on prime-time television
R7GNl TIL About the story behind the movie, Candyman. In 1987, Ruthie Mae McCoy, an inhabitant of the Projects, was shot 4 times after an unnamed assailant removed, and climbed through her medicine cabinet and left, and escaped, back through it. He/She was never apprehended.
8aYxX TIL There is the Yip Man Memorial Museum in Foshan. Many of his students become very excellent martial artists and among them Bruce Lee was his favorite
JYX08 TIL: Chickens' heads are gyroscopic. Move their bodies but their heads stay steady.