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TIL that, to date, six nuclear weapons have been lost and never recovered.

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xVG4o TIL Jesse Owens broke three world records and tied a fourth, all in less than an hour at the 1935 Big Ten track meet in Ann Arbor, Michigan, a feat never equalled since, and called "the greatest 45 minutes ever in sport". Owens went on to win four golds at Berlin the following year.
loQW1 TIL NASA's first Mobile Quarantine Facility (MQF-001), a modified 35-foot Airstream trailer to provide biological isolation for astronauts was transferred in the 1970s to the US Department of Agriculture for field work, but its current whereabouts are unknown.
EgyNd TIL I made a rap verse for Baby Shark 💀
ne5Ad TIL about Judith Love Cohen, an Aerospace Engineer who worked on projects such as the Apollo and Hubble programs. She was a Publisher, Author, and Mother to Jack Black.
X0oPj TIL though the poem is frequently seen as a grand expression of individualism, the poem The Road Not Taken was written ironically, a reference to his friend Edward Thomas who had issues choosing a path on walks with him and often regretted his decisions.