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Today I Learned 4 Ways To Stop Simpin! (I'm going to need it)

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X0MmR TIL modern nuclear weapons are thousands of times more powerful than the ones used in WWII
WrAL TIL that Polish exiles were not only the best-performing RAF pilots in the Battle of Britain, but also very successful with women; “they always have a girl on each arm. They say the girls cannot resist the Poles, nor the Poles the girls”.
6P9J TIL O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack has been on the Billboard soundtrack chart for 8 ½ years
6x7Y TIL of Cynthia Ann Parker, a settler who was kidnapped by Comanche Indians when she was 10. She lived with them for 24 years, married a chieftain and had 3 children. She was then ‘rescued’ by Texas Rangers when she was 34 but never adjusted back to her old life. She died heartbroken 10 years later.
0wZQ5 TIL that F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby) is the great-grand nephew of Francis Scott Key (Star Spangled Banner). He was also named after him.