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

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OG6wY TIL that Pat Morita had a completely different voice then Mr. Miyagi!
d8lY9 TIL about Lu, America's oldest hippo, who is 60 years old. His name is short for Lucifer.
AeZg TIL a large patch of critically endangered Mount Diablo buckwheat wildflowers–thought to be extinct for nearly 70 years–was spotted at a nature preserve in CA. Location was kept secret for months for fear that hikers and vandals would destroy them.
Oo4QX TIL - During World War II, at the urging of the US government, actress Veronica Lake changed her signature hairstyle because women working in war time machine shops were often injured when their long hair became tangled in machinery.
AN7rg TIL Sassafras the main ingredient to Sarsaparilla and Gumbo File', the roots and bark of the sassafras tree contain a high concentration of the chemical safrole. Safrole was judged a carcinogen by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) after testing it on rats in 1960.