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TIL Neil Diamond was a member of the 1960 NCAA men's championship fencing team.

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nWnBB TIL that Edward Teller, the father of the hydrogen bomb, once proposed a 10 gigaton bomb. It would have been 670,000x stronger than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, and 200x stronger than the Tsar Bomba, the largest bomb ever created. It's estimated to have been able to set all of France on fire.
9w8eQ TIL of WT Stead a pioneering journalist and editor, who led investigations into underage prostitution and Jack The Ripper before eventually dying on the RMS Titanic (whose sinking he had predicted) after giving up his seat in a lifeboat.
N7M4e TIL Apollo 12 landed within 600 feet of the Surveyor 3 spacecraft that had arrived 2 years earlier. Parts of the spacecraft were retrieved and taken back home for examination.
WE69 TIL Theoretically a gravity train through the center of the earth, would take just 42minutes to travel to any other location on earth
AN1D7 TIL the 3.5% rule: 3.5% of a national population peacefully protesting on the streets at once will ALWAYS topple a Dictatorship or democratic government. Moreover peaceful movements succeed twice as often as violent ones. This surprised even the Harvard political scientist who discovered it.