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TIL that in 1958 the U.S. Air Force accidentally dropped a nuclear bomb on a family’s backyard in Mars Bluff, South Carolina.The conventional explosives detonated, blowing a 70-ft-wide crater and injuring six people, but there was no nuclear core installed, so it didn’t go nuclear.

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