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TIL Former Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke was previously the world record holder for the fastest drinking of a yard of beer, when he drank a “Yardie” in 11 seconds as part of an Oxford college penalty.

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6EJ67 TIL the Tsar Bomba, the largest ever nuclear bomb detonated, was originally designed to yield 100 megatons. However, Sakharov was very apprehensive about the amount of radiation it would create, and therefore replaced the bombs innovative uranium layers with lead, halving the size of the blast.
aWdM TIL that there is a condition nicknamed Stone man syndrome that converts damaged tissue to bone in the body.
695NJ TIL That in response to a lawsuit, hackers from the Anonymous group took PlayStation network offline for 23 days and leaked the creditcard informations of 77 million users
MJ8B TIL Vikings used ravens to navigate. They brought ravens aboard their ships, then released them and sailed in the same direction to find land. The raven was so important to them that it became the symbol on their flag.
0J5p TIL That there are plastic-eating marine bacteria that have caused the amount of plastic in the ocean to level off.