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TIL In 1969 Colorado tried fracking with a nuclear bomb - it worked, but the oil and gas are too irradiated to be used even today

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D1m6v TIL Steve Wozniak has a binder of $2 bills and pulls them out as suspiciously as possible when making small purchases. One time the Secret Service was called and Steve gave them an ID saying he was a member of the “Department of Defiance”
j6Rxn TIL The idea for what would become the George Foreman grill, was originally offered to Hulk Hogan. He declined. Foreman has made over $500 million from this product alone
GeQ7 TIL the “Confederate Flag” wasn’t an official flag, and was ridiculed by the founders of the Confederacy. It never flew as a state flag during the Civil War.
E5y7 TIL The man who invented aikido was a samurai who became a pacifist & refused to fight for Japanese imperialism. He then became a hermit, lived on a mountain sitting under a tree.
NDL8 TIL of a disorder called Aphantasia, people with it cannot see images in their head. Many that have this disorder are completely unaware.