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TIL there was a single fatality at the Nevada test site, where the U.S. detonated over 1,000 nuclear warheads. He died when a crater collapsed.

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XEGyD TIL the Gerber Mark II combat knife originally had a 5 degree offset between the blade and the grip, one of the reasons being to ride in the sheath more comfortably - many were returned because of a 'bent blade'.
lo5Qa TIL Bayard Rustin was told to move to the back of a bus, but stopped when a white child reached out to grab his tie, before being scolded by its mom. He thought, “I owe it to that child, that it should be educated to know that blacks do not want to sit in the back”. He was then arrested and beaten.
xwW1 TIL that Jeff Bezos’ parents put several hundred thousand dollars into Amazon.com to get it started.
KOZrJ TIL in 2017, researchers discovered a 'Big Void' in the Great Pyramid of Giza; this large empty space has yet to be explored
wRbE TIL - Stealthing, the act of covertly removing a condom during sex is considered rape according to a Swiss Court.