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TIL that the destruction of Hiroshima was caused by only half a gram of matter being converted to energy: the weight of a butterfly

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neYnB TIL Julia Roberts told Matthew Perry that she would appear on Friends if he wrote her a paper on Quantum Physics! He did it, faxed it to her the next day, and she appeared on the show and later dated him!
6dW TIL in 2007, a state senator sued God over natural disasters to make a point about frivolous lawsuits
XELw6 TIL that Ted Kaczynski (the Unabomber), Ramzi Yousef (the 1993 World Trade Center bomber), and Timothy McVeigh (the Oklahoma City bomber), all became friends in prison, and regularly discussed religion and politics until McVeigh's execution.
ExQ0 TIL That there is a community of 4 inch long amoebas that live in the Marianas trench. They are the largest single celled organisms in the world and are incredibly toxic.
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