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TIL Kraft Dinner is a Canadian only thing

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N9RJ TIL the US Navy exploded several 500 ton shots of TNT in Hawaii during 1965 to determine the damage caused by nuclear weapons without radiation risks. The craters left behind are inland but connected to the Pacific ocean underground.
8e1N4 TIL that Hitler had absolutely no reason to declare war on the USA
7rKWr TIL that St. Nicholas of Myra, upon whom Santa Claus is based, is the patron saint of prostitutes
8vkb TIL the package that Tom Hanks did not open in “Castaway” contained “a waterproof, solar-powered satellite phone” according to Robert Zemeckis
gM607 TIL that if it were not for the vacuum in space, the roaring of the sun - which would equate to roughly 100 decibels (the equivalent to a chainsaw's volume in close proximity) - would leave all us Earthlings deaf within the course of a day.