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TIL that Babalu, Ricky Ricardo's signature song on I Love Lucy, is a tribute to an Afro-Cuban god, Babalu-Aye, one of the seven main gods of Santeria.

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kbNg TIL only two percent of the fissile material in Little Boy, the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, actually detonated. In other words, seven-tenths of a gram of Uranium-235 leveled a two-mile radius of the city.