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TIL: That while the Russian Tsar Bomb is the largest nuclear device ever detonated, it was the ‘cleanest’ nuclear bomb ever detonated. It’s modifications removed 97% of it’s fallout.

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kOQmg TIL a 10-20 kiloton explosion of a gunpowder armory in Beijing in 1628 killed twenty thousand people and hastened the fall of the Ming Dynasty
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