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TIL that the word Blockbuster comes from an actual bomb used during WWII.

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VrwD TIL of 3 men whom broke into a luxury store in Germany and ran off with $6.8M worth of jewelry. They left behind a piece of evidence, sweat. DNA analysis led to not one but two suspects- identical twins. They couldn’t determine from which one. They went free.
Jo1l TIL In the 2013 American Cheese Competition, only one cheese was entered in the Dry Jack category, it came in THIRD! The judges chose to not award first or second.
nWlg9 TIL: All living cells emit ultra weak coherent electromagnetic energy in the form of photons, often called biophotons.
dDkjd TIL that the Romani people originated in the region of present-day Rajasthan, India. Their patron saint Saint Sarah is AKA Sara-la-Kali, "Kali" being a reference to the Hindu goddess Kali who is a popular goddess in northern India.
dJdr TIL in 1954, the US tested their first dry fuel nuclear bomb, “Castle Bravo”. The explosion was 3x larger than expected. The fallout affected a 100 mile radius, and material traveled as far as India and Australia. It is the most significant radioactive contamination ever caused by the US.