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TIL That in 1944, the income tax rate in the U.S. for the top bracket was 94%

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gV18 TIL Only 1.38% of Little Boy, the bomb that fell on Hiroshima, fissioned. Yet is still had a blast radius of 4.4 sq. miles.
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