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TIL The pilot that dropped the Tsar Bomba nuclear bomb was given a 50% chance of survival that mission, given the speed and size of the blast and whether his plane could escape in time

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XOLE TIL Bryan Adams’s hit “Summer of ‘69’” is not about the year, but about the sexual position.
yJKJ TIL show producers gave a homeless man $100,000 to do what he wants; within 6 months he had nearly spent all the money, and he eventually went broke and became homeless again.
BgWwk TIL John Hart attempted to reform English spelling over 200 years before Noah Webster
OoJRL TIL 1976 Farrah Fawcett red swimsuit poster has sold over 12 million copies. Two years after her death, the swimsuit was donated to Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, along with an original copy of the poster, her personal Charlie’s Angels script book, and other personal items.
lonJ7 TIL that during WWII Audie Murphy earned every US Army combat award for valor, and several French and Belgian awards for heroism. He earned the Medal of Honor at 19 for holding off a company of German soldiers for an hour, then leading a successful counter attack while out of ammo and wounded.