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TIL In 2007 six live nuclear warheads were mistakenly loaded onto a B-52H bomber and flown from Minot, North Dakota to Barksdale, Louisiana. For a whole 36 hours they went unaccounted for.

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957M TIL A Harvard Professor was able to slow light down so much to the point that it “stopped”.
pYEOp TIL of Trofim Lysenko, an influential Soviet scientist who rejected genetics in favor of his own idiosyncratic, pseudoscientific ideas. These ideas led to catastrophic famines in the Soviet Union that killed millions of people, and was also adapted in China to similarly calamitous results.
R5kJ8 TIL Troll dolls were invented in 1959 by a Danish fisherman who couldn’t afford to buy his daughter a Christmas present. At its peak, 38,000 trolls were sold everyday until the hype faded away.
N7ZyJ TIL of the 250 plutonium-powered pacemakers Medtronic manufactured, 22 were still in service more than 25 years later, a feat that no battery-powered pacemaker could achieve
ZEaB TIL a man built up so much static electricity in his clothes as he walked that he burned carpets, melted plastic, and sparked a mass evacuation.