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TIL Kokura, Japan was the original target of the second atomic bomb dropped during World War II

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awlK0 TIL about the I am Rich app, sold for $999.99 on the App Store in 2008. It received 8 downloads and only showed an image of a diamond, with no other functionality.
RrXl TIL that the US has technically been in a state of emergency since 1933
nkZP TIL the US House of Representatives was banned from editing Wikipedia after staff were caught making “persistent disruptive edits”, including naming former defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld as an alien wizard who eats Mexican babies.
v4gr TIL that at the St. Louis World’s Fair in 1904, the world was introduced to hot dogs, hamburgers, waffle cones, peanut butter, iced tea, cotton candy, Puffed Wheat cereal and Dr. pepper
mxdgv TIL in 1985 two co-workers from Sears recorded a rap song for a friend's class project. That song grew in popularity as radio stations started playing it. Although they called themselves Super Nature, the song had the line, "we the Salt and Pepa MCs" so listeners and DJ's dubbed them Salt-N-Peppa.