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TIL the USSR used a nuclear bomb to put out a gas well fire.

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PYWxL TIL - Victor Lustig, a German con artist, designed and sold a "money box" which he claimed could print $100 bills. A victim, sensing profits, would buy the machine for a high price. Stocked with six to nine genuine $100 bills for demonstration purposes, but after that it produced only blank paper.
GrLj TIL that cab drivers in London have much larger hippocampi, which is the brain region responsible for the formation of new memories, than other people.
xVxRD TIL that in the 1830s the Swedish Navy planted 300 000 oak trees to be used for ship production in the far future. When they received word that the trees were fully grown in 1975 they had little use of them as modern warships are built with metal.
WkJgB TIL Grace Slick (Jefferson Airplane) allowed Chic-Fil-A to use her song 'Nothings Going to Stop Us Now' in a commercial just so she could take their money and donate it to 'Lambda Legal,' an organization that offers legal support to the LGBQT community and people living with AIDS.
VMYGG TIL the difference between a graveyard and a cemetery is that a graveyard is connected to a church but a cemetery stands alone.