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TIL A Single Nuclear Bomb over Kansas Could Cause An EMP Over All of the Continental US

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x6AJk TIL Michelle Trachtenberg was supposed to play Bella Swan in 'twilight’, but turned it down because she "had already done the vampire thing".
5GRB TIL there is a village in Nebraska with only one resident. She acts as mayor, and even pays taxes to herself.
xV9vD TIL that despite being only 100 miles from each other, Somoa and American Somoa will enter the new decade 25 hours apart. Residents can take a 30 minute flight back into 2019 and celebrate the New Year again more than a day later.
rRpj1 TIL Howie let loose a perfectly timed and pitched fart while recording “The Call” that fit so perfectly in the song that the producer and the rest of the Backstreet Boys decided to keep it in the final recording.
Oom54 TIL Robert Downey Jr, after Iron Man 3, said he'd only do Iron Man 4 if Mel Gibson directs it