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

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PvnZ TIL an Irish nurse has been stuck in the Phillipines for 4 years awaiting an appeal of a 14 year jail sentence for possession of .38 grams of Marijuana which he says was planted in his luggage by airport officials to extort money (see tanim droga & tanim bala).
OKlX TIL Katy Perry’s cat’s name is Kitty Purry
N7J6M TIL of Bruce Edwards Ivins. A microbiologist & employee of US Army, he mailed anonymous letters with Bacillus anthracis (anthrax) to members of Congress and media in September & October 2001, killing 5 persons and injuring 12 others. He committed suicide in 2008 to avoid capture by FBI.
89b4 TIL an officer in the American Civil War, Benjamin Runkle, was mistakenly left for dead on the battlefield. An obituary was written for him while he was still alive, but ironically Runkle outlived the man who wrote it, and in return wrote an obituary for his obituary writer
e0ddD TIL there are 7,000 tigers living in the US either in zoos or privately owned, which is nearly double the estimated 3,890 tigers in the wild around the world.