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TIL Britain forgot about a 50,000 pound bomb that never went off - only to have it be hit by lightning 20 years later, unleashing its destruction on…a cow

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7rOVO TIL that the patient in the National Geographic best picture of 1987 depicting the famous 23hrs heart transplantation which shows the Doctor monitoring his vitals while the assistant rests in the corner not only survived but outlived the doctor.
eprBJ TIL in the 1960s, science fiction author Stanisław Lem came up with several terms for technologies like "phantomatics" for virtual reality, "molectronics" for molecular nanotechnology, "cerebromatics" for cognitive enhancement or "intelectronics" for artificial intelligence.
16w7D TIL that according to etymologists and all searches conducted of historical usage, the term “bucket list” as the idiom we know today was never used in any book, newspaper, or publication until the movie “The Bucket List” came out in 2007. All prior uses have been debunked as misdated.
XE7v8 TIL that over the past few years, 35 bicycles and 7 cars have been left aboard Washington State Ferries. The passengers boarded and forgot they rode/drove on and walked off. This can result in massive (and expensive) searches, in case the passenger went overboard.
yVOXJ TIL it's possible to buy real human bones online