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TIL so confident were the Los Alamos scientists about the design of Little Boy (later dropped on Hiroshima) that a full-scale nuclear explosive test was not conducted

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mxJaO TIL that Chinese youth used to listen to a lot of music CDs from the US with holes punched through the corner. The so-called "dakou" CDs were surplus albums destined to be disposed, but ended up being sold in China instead. You could listen to most of each album, but some songs would be missing.
b97KE TIL Since 1973, more than 155 people have been released from death row thanks to evidence of their innocence.
mZLR TIL the Butt fumble has its own Wikipedia page
GLm7 TIL Before Darrell Dimebag Abbott was murdered on stage, Eddie Van Halen had agreed to make him a copy of his original 1979 Bumblebee guitar but never got around to it. Upon hearing of his tragic death, Eddie placed his actual Bumblebee guitar inside his casket.
YR57 TIL for scorpions to reproduce, the male deposits a capsule of sperm on the ground, then wrestles a female on top of it.