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TIL of Trinitite, a synthetic mineral born in the heat of a nuclear blast

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GNY7 TIL the opposite of “Chaos” is “Cosmos”
V4k0 TIL when James Brady (the man paralyzed by a gunshot wound from the Ronald Reagan assassination attempt) died in 2014, it was ruled a homicide 33 years after the incident.
bbm0 TIL that the words ‘under God’ were added to the Pledge of Allegiance in 1954 in response to the Communist threat of the times.
XEn8r TIL that it takes your GPS receiver up to 12 minutes to adjust the time correctly. The GPS time is presently 18 seconds ahead of UTC because they started timekeeping in 1980 and can't factor in leap seconds.
gXWX TIL Goats Are Turned on by Lesbian Porn