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TIL George Costanza’s fictional company, Vandelay Industries, became a reality in Brooklyn, when a con man named Thomas Sfraga was just sentenced to 45 months in prison for fraud for running a Ponzi scheme

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neX1B TIL of Castle Bravo, the largest bomb detonated by the USA. It was roughly 1000 times more power than the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and had a fireball 4.5 miles (7.2 km) in diameter 1 second after the detonation.
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