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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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e4XJ TIL the original Oxford English Dictionary was laregly written by a psychiatric patient in hospital at the time who also chopped his own penis off (autopeotomy)
KOE86 TIL of Operation Moolah, a 1953 USAF effort to obtain a combat capable Soviet MiG-15 jet by rewarding any defecting Communist pilot 100k cash. The person who won it didn't even know it was being offered.
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