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TIL that ABRACADABRA is actually a Hebrew term meaning “I create what I speak”.

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GAep5 TIL that in 1958, the U.S. government accidentally dropped a nuclear bomb on a family's backyard in Mars Bluff, South Carolina. The bomb’s nuclear core was not installed, so it didn’t cause a nuclear explosion, but the conventional explosives detonated, leaving a massive crater and damaging the home
XEwmR TIL of a computer program called Deliverance that legally killed several people in the 1990s. It was created by "Dr Death" (doctor and euthanasia advocate Philip Nitschke), and came on a special laptop connected to an IV that injected a lethal dose of barbiturates. It was only legal for a short time
VMeam TIL of Elan School, a child behavior modification camp operating from 1970-2011. Using Lord of The Flies style techniques, they would psychologically destroy the children for years, leading to extraordinarily high suicide rates. If a child escaped, bounty hunters would chase them across the country.
Ga7N TIL Charles M. Schulz (Peanuts) threatened to quit instead of removing or modification of his new black character, at a time (1968) when keeping the staus quo would’ve been much easier.
Wkajo TIL the word "quarantine" is derived from the 40-day isolation period for ships during the Great Plague of London