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TIL that in the 60s they made a gun that shot bullets with rockets in them

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lojG7 TIl in addition to his sword, Ex Calibur, legendary King Arthur also had a spear named Ron.
OGV87 TIL that Canadians play a modified version of “American Football” with a 110-yard field that is wider and still has the fieldgoal post at the goal line (NFL moved in back in the 1970s)
gLe4 TIL The Russian tried to dig a hole through the Earth’s crust in the 1970’s. They reached 40,318 feet deep before they stopped. It is still the deepest hole humans have ever dug.
doyK TIL the morning of Super Bowl XLI, Don Mischer asked Prince if he would be ok to perform in the rain. Prince responded simply, “Can you make it rain harder”?
x6pEb TIL in 1952, Navy LT Jimmy Carter led a team of nuclear scientists in disassembling a Canadian nuclear reactor undergoing meltdown. Carter, alongside others, personally lowered himself into the reactor to disassemble it by hand, exposing himself to one thousand times the level of safe radiation.