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TIL that Johnny Knoxville comes from significant inbreeding

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mBEE TIL that in 1958, United States Air Force lost a 7,600-pound (3,400 kg) Mark 15 nuclear bomb in the waters off Tybee Island near Savannah, Georgia, United States. It has never been recovered.
YGrd TIL there is a building in Tokyo built in 1972, whose rooms consist of tiny 90 square foot capsule apartments that can be individually replaced like lego pieces.
W77lL TIL that no song debuted at No.1 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts for 40 years, until 1995 - when it happened 4 times.
rRwpe TIL it is estimated that approximately 70% of people at some point in their life will experience 'Imposter Syndrome', where they don't believe that they deserve their success and are worried about being found out as a 'fraud'.
GYy4J TIL During the Cold War a 'Three world' model arose to describe nations either aligned with NATO (first world),the Eastern Bloc (second world) or the'Third World'. Rather than economic this was a political grouping loosely describing 'unaligned' nations in the 'devoloping world.