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TIL that 12 cyanide pills were kept in the cockpit of the Enola Gay, and pilots were instructed to take them if the mission was compromised during the bombing of Hiroshima

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0d4D5 TIL that wearing a tie can reduce blood flow to the brain by 7.5 per cent.
xV0yo TIL that there is a turle, named Hope, who was born with an exposed heart. Her case is very unique and has never been seen in a turtle before.
L5bm TIL Nixon’s strategy during Vietnam was called the Madman Theory and it focused on making the enemy think Nixon was insane and if provoked would act irrational.
50k TIL there are 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Possible Chess Games.
PLBL TIL chimpanzees deliberately seek out and eat fire ants, presumably to enjoy their venom in the same way we enjoy spicy food