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TIL the majority of nukes ever detonated were done so outside Las Vegas -- over 1,000. You could see mushroom clouds from the hotels.

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85ya TIL the United States is the current reigning Rugby Olympic Champion (1924), and the only team to win gold twice.
0wvDp TIL: At the subatomic level, space is never truly empty. It is filled with a writhing, active population of "Virtual Particles" that pop in and out of existence. Physicists call this “quantum foam”. Physicists theorize fluctuations from this field of energy may have given rise to the Universe.
4kV8J TIL that in Connecticut, high school graduates earn an average of $11,439 more annually than non-Graduates, which is the largest gap in the United States.
yQxDw TIL of the "California Nut Crimes", including the theft of 35 truckloads of nuts worth about $10 million between 2013 - 2017.
JkZv TIL a clinical trial in 2016 held at Stanford University School of Medicine found that injecting modified human stem cells directly into the brains of chronic stroke patients can re-enable patients to walk.