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TIL that a single submarine can launch a total of 91,200 kilotons of destruction in 192 warheads; that's 5700x Hiroshima and ~41000x the recent Beirut explosion

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M7AvW TIL Star-Planetary Systems are named after the name of their Star, our star's name is Sol. That's why our system is called the Solar System. Our nearest neighbouring star is Proxima Centauri and its system is called the Proxima Centauri System. "Solar System" is not a generic/categorical name.
0JvA TIL a former FBI agent changed his name to FNU LNU - an acronym for “first name unknown/last name unknown” - to confuse the police and then became the Sherrif of a rogue county
rRw51 TIL that the employees of Disney land worked in such terrible conditions they referred to the park as “Mauschwitz” until managers discovered the employee lingo and banned use of the word for being un-Disney-like. Within an hour the staff switched to “Duckau”
m1G6O TIL that Ministry's Al Jourgensen shoved mini carrots up his backside and chased the members of Metallica around with them after Metallica barged into his dressing room and drank his beer. At Lollapalooza '92, he angrily stripped naked and humped Ice Cube on stage after Cube ALSO stole his beer.
VBj0B TIL in 1985 Michael Jackson bought the Lennon–McCartney song catalog for $47.5m then used it in many commercials which saddened McCartney. Jackson reportedly expressed exasperation at his attitude, stating "If he didn't want to invest $47.5m in his own songs, then he shouldn't come crying to me now"