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TIL King Tut's Mother is his Father's Sister

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nWevW TIL in the 1960s the US government dug a mile-deep hole in the ground and dropped a 40-kiloton atomic bomb in it, to release natural gas. It worked, but the gas was too radioactive to use, and the project was abandoned.
QOZL TIL that when a hamster wheel is placed outside wild mice will come run on it.
78AWx TIL that when Christopher Mintz-Plasse filmed Superbad, his mother was required by law to be on set during his sex scene as he was still a minor at the time.
M7XO0 TIL that Michael Jordan planned to become a weatherman if his career in basketball did not work out.
9XWm TIL of the WASP Injector Knife, which once inside the victim, expels 850 psi of CO2 creating a basketball sized air pocket, freezing surrounding internals