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TIL 9/11 news coverage went 93 hrs uninterrupted.

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WkkJd TIL In 1961 a B-52 bomber broke up in mid-air and dropped an armed nuclear bomb near the city of Goldsboro, NC. The bomb did not detonate but the recently declassified report said that "one simple, dynamo-technology, low voltage switch stood between the United States and a major catastrophe".
YJOW TIL Snoop Dogg and David Beckham are such good friends that Snoop sends Beckham his new music before it’s officially released.
0w6lA TIL, despite posing as a neutral country, Switzerland helped US and German intelligence services in gathering classified communications by selling rigged encoding devices to more than 120 governments.
gLNL TIL In 2002, a brothel in Fremantle (Western Australia) had to be closed down because U.S sailors pushed prostitutes to exhaustion.
vLmx TIL adult Luna moths have no mouths, they live off the energy they stored as a caterpillar