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TIL British nukes used to be protected by bicycle locks

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8am1G TIL Nikola Tesla, widely known as the inventor of the AC power system, also installed the first hydroelectric plant at Niagara Falls in 1896. It was around this time that Tesla also disavowed coal and oil in favor of renewable energy sources.
XeGE TIL It is illegal to tickle a female in Virginia
R8Ra TIL in 1997, the pilot of an A-10 attack jet turned off his radio and transponder for no apparent reason and flew hundreds of miles off course during a training mission, later crashing into a mountainside in Colorado. No explanation for the pilot’s actions was ever found.
o19o TIL that the original Rocky movie was shot in only 28 days, on a budget of 1 million dollars. It is also has one of the highest profit margins of all time, at 225:1.
yQnXa TIL only 2% of Ford buyers took the $27 seat belt option, in 1956. And in the 80's, less than 15% of Americans said they used seat belts and a Gallup poll showed that 65% of Americans opposed mandatory belt laws. Now "more than 90% buckle up regularly".