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TIL that MythBusters once fired a cannonball at a bomb disposal range…and missed. Instead, it flew over 700 yards and through a bedroom in which a family was sleeping, eventually coming to a stop in a minivan.

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wJX1 TIL that during filming of The Usual Suspects director Bryan Singer managed to convince all the major actors that they were Keyser Soze. When Gabriel Byrne first watched the film he was so stunned that he wasn’t Keyser Soze that he stormed off into the parking lot and argued with Singer for an hour.
KY6ma TIL that there is still the radioactive part of a nuclear weapon buried in a farm field from a 1961 B52 airplane crash over North Carolina. You can clearly see the Army's easement on satellite photos 35º29'34"N 77º51'31.2"W .
b9kG7 TIL before Fred the Red Manchester United had another mascot, Billy the goat. Billy would regularly drink with the players down the pub after a game. When United won the FA Cup in 1909, he had too much champagne in the post match celebrations & died of alcohol poisoning.
96rM TIL Justin the First started off as an illiterate peasant swine herder, rose through the ranks in the army, and was elected Emperor of the Roman Empire
Y7LXv TIL that Gerard Way started My Chemical Romance after seeing 9/11 happen on his way to work in New York City. Seeing thousands of people die in front of him made him reassess his life and decide to take a chance on a music career.