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TIL If North Dakota seceded from the Union, it would be the world’s third strongest nuclear power.

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0wJvy TIL The Falkland Islands minefields have become a large nature reserve for Penguins, who aren't heavy enough to detonate them.
9wPg7 TIL about the sinking of the S.S. Eastland, a small steamer who, in the aftermath of the Titanic disaster, was filled with so many lifeboats that it became unstable and eventually sank, leading to the deaths of 844 people.
5Y75R TIL Operation Freakout was a Church of Scientology covert plan intended to have the author Paulette Cooper imprisoned or committed to a psychiatric hospital, as revenge for her highly critical book, The Scandal of Scientology.
X0Vkr TIL that, among many other things, Air Force General Curtis LeMay is credited as being one of the two people that are responsible for Judo surviving World War II. Martial Arts training was banned for the populace during the Occupation of Japan, but LeMay instituted it into USAF training regimen.
b5LZ TIL, The Strid is a narrow stream in Yorkshire with a deep chasm and undercurrents so strong that not a single person who has fallen into the Strid has ever come out of it alive