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TIL that dimples are in fact genetic defects, as muscles grow incorrectly and leave a gap between them.

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JYPYV TIL Tom Hanks has been gifting the White House press corps with new coffee machines since 2004 after visiting and finding an old decrepit Mr. Coffee machine serving really bad coffee. Latest was a $1700 espresso machine in 2017.
wL6KJ TIL that Wyatt Earp, a deputy marshal in Tombstone, Arizona in 1881 who took part in the famous gunfight at the OK Corral became a consultant for several cowboy movies and died in Los Angeles in 1926.
VMybZ TIL about the U.S. Air Force's doomsday weapon, SLAM. The rocket was designed to fly fast and low over the Soviet Union, dropping hydrogen bombs over predetermined targets while its unshielded nuclear reactor contaminated everything in it's path.
ZDea TIL the Tsar Bomba, the single most physically powerful device ever used by mankind, caused windowpanes to be partially broken at distances of 900 kilometres (560 mi).
R5a1a TIL co-founder of the band ABBA, Anni-Frid Lyngstad, was born from the union between a Norwegian mother and Nazi German father for a program where the Nazis tried to increase the Aryan population. Children such as her were open to receive nicknames such as “SS bastard”, “rat,” or “Nazi child.”