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TIL that as a child, the "seven nation army" was how Jack White would mispronounce the Salvation Army.

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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.
R7KX8 today i learned that there is a genus of plants in the Aizoaceae family that is called Lithops (or living rock) which evolved to camouflage themselves in the surrounding rocks to avoid being eaten by predators.
Ka1R TIL of Oscar the Cat who predicted when people in his nursing home were about to die with such accuracy that staff would call relatives.
X04Pk TIL that the world is running out of sand. Sand is the most-consumed natural resource besides water, and it's the main ingredient in concrete, glass, and silicon chips. Most harvested sand goes to make concrete, but desert sand isn't suitable for concrete because it's too smooth.
W7V1o TIL Silly walking like Mr Teabag is really good exercise.