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TIL Bonnie Bedeilia's maiden name is Culkin. Her brother Kit is father to Macaulay and Kieran

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EgREX 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.
OJ6 TIL that in the early Roman Empire,light-color hair was associated with the barbarian women of Gaul and Germany who often ended up as slaves in brothels. Consequently, Roman law required all prostitutes to dye their hair blonde in order to distinguish themselves from “proper,” dark-mane ladies.
x6oEb TIL the oldest company in the world is a Japanese construction company. It has been in continuous operation for 1,444 years
kJoeB TIL that television journalist Deborah Norville was notified by an eagle-eyed TV viewer that she had a lump on her neck and advised to see a doctor. That lump was a cancerous thyroid nodule which Norville needed surgery to remove.
1JgD TIL that there was controversy in 1930 because someone was paid more than the president. That person was Babe Ruth, and the amount was $80,000