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TIL Jackass Flats: The aptly named test site for the world's first and only nuclear-powered rocket engines.

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jNxOE TIL underwater basket weaving has been used as a pejorative term for excessively easy/useless/niche courses for at least the past 65 years
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jNNMN TIL that those white flowers you can blow are in fact the same plants as those yellow flowers you see everywhere.