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TIL the most powerful nuclear bomb ever detonated was over 3,000x more powerful than the one dropped on Hiroshima. It was large enough to completely level the entire state of Rhode Island.

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kDDm TIL when Stalin’s first son was captured, Hitler offered to trade him for Friedrich Paulus, a field marshal who led the 6th army into Stalingrad. When Stalin heard of this, he allegedly said, “I will not trade a Marshal for a Lieutenant.”
jNGNX TIL Khajuraho: India’s temples of sex built-in 10th AD are a group of temples covered with erotic sculptures that involve masturbation, group sex, and bestiality & are of Tantric origin. Studies say that they represent the ultimate embodiment of Yogic Purusha & Prakati.
Z8ekR TIL that in 1801, a British Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire may have stolen several priceless Classical Greek marble sculptures from the Parthenon and Acropolis and are currently located in the British Museuem
X0E8E TIL Dan Frost, a German scientist, was able to make diamonds from peanut butter.
7ROM TIL that there is a hypothetical type of creatures called “ATMOSPHERIC BEASTS”. According Carl Sagan they could live in the atmosphere of a gas giant, such as Jupiter.