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TIL an 'audiophile' once spent $10K to build his own 40-ft utility pole on his backyard just to listen to 'purer music'

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pYrEQ TIL of the atomic recoilless rifle called the Davy Crockett gun. Armed with a W54 warhead, it still remains the smallest nuclear weapon system ever built.
xxMD TIL two 16 year old girls in West Virginia murdered their best friend by stabbing her over 50 times because they got tired of being her friend.
yQKDe TIL as a reaction to slipping behind in the space race, the United States Air Force developed a plan to detonate a nuclear bomb on the moon. The main objective was to cause a nuclear explosion that would be visible from Earth, boosting the morale of the Amercian people.
1akAr TIL The Sbarro Family had great timing, selling their chain restaurant to a private equity firm in 2007, cashing out right before the recession and before the company had to declare bankruptcy... twice.
6Ew1m [TIL] The only original flying Fw190 from WW2, was found intact in a forest outside Leningrad (Saint Petersburg) Russia in 1989.