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TIL Americans pronounce Bologna as Baloney
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TIL that the Castle Bravo nuclear test was 3x as powerful as the designers expected. This was due to unexpected fission of lithium-7, which greatly increased the yield of the other nuclear reactions.
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TIL Dolly Parton co-owns one of the production companies that produced Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel.
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TIL Michael Jackson worked with Stephen King to create a short film called ‘Ghosts.’ It set the world record for the longest music video at 40 minutes and centered around Michael Jackson as a rich recluse in a town where the adults try to run him out and he ends up being saved by children.
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TIL that Mongols under the rule of Genghis Khan pulled the bowstrings of their bows back with their thumb instead of using a “Mediterranean draw” with three fingers, so to protect their thumbs, the Mongols invented a “thumb ring”
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TIL there is a serious dispute as to the proper name for the body of water commonly called the Persian Gulf, and that Iran takes it so seriously that they deny airspace to commercial airlines unless they officially acknowledge Iran’s preferred name for it.