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TIL there's 88 cities/towns named Washington in the US

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VMYBD TIL nearly 2,500 atomic weapons have been detonated on Earth - 520 of them atmospheric. In 1958 alone, the US detonated 75 weapons. 928 were detonated in Nevada as late as 1992.
Vde4 TIL that until 2006 Russian Cosmonauts carried weapons into space. This included a pistol, shotgun, and machete. The purpose of these weapons was to defend the Cosmonauts from wolves, bears and other wildlife after their return trip to the Siberian wilderness
b9pKN TIL US hired 1600 German Scientist after WW2 to work on patents and ultimately help build the A-Bomb we know today. US valued these scientists higher than Germany ultimately generating more than $10 Billion in patents for the US.
wLRJo TIL that in 1216 Prince Louis of France invaded England and was proclaimed King of England with the support of many English nobles. Eventually the English changed their minds and paid him to agree that he had never actually been king, so Louis doesn't appear in any official list of Kings of England.
LQ1Zd TIL that it's a common misconception that Tennessee Williams choked to death on a bottle cap and that his death report was corrected several months later (in August 1983) to say that he died from a toxic level of Seconal (a barbituary).