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

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NXwK1 Today I learned about the Texas City Disaster, the deadliest industrial accident in American history, killing 581. All but one of Texas City's firefighters were killed.
rNwx4 TIL that during the Argentine economic boom, from the 1860s to 1930s, the UK played a dominant role in the Argentine economy. The community of English, Scottish, and Welsh Argentines was the largest of any country outside the British Empire, leading to the popular name of the "Sixth Dominion".
xax7 TIL that the proof for 1+1=2 is 52 steps long
woG8M TIL that the Romans were among the first to introduce a standardized system of measuring time through hours. But they didn't have a fixed hour duration throughout the entire year. Instead, they adjusted the length of an hour based on the length of daylight. A winter hr was shorter than a summer hr.
DKY TIL that Scruffy, the lovable janitor from Futurama, was a zombie.