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TIL there is a website to test how much damage a nuclear bomb will do to a surrounding area, how do you fare against north korea’s tested bombs?

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e0Zyb TIL Ernest Hemingway mocked the interpretation of Chekhov's gun in his short story "Fifty Grand" with an example of two characters that are introduced and then never again mentioned.
9M9X TIL that Thomas Jefferson was educated and tolerant about Islam, and forsaw Muslims running for president.
wl46 TIL in 1996, a black teenager, while marching to protest a KKK rally in Michigan, protected a white man, who had an “SS” tattoo and and a confederate flag shirt, from the attacks of a crowd. She threw herself on him to deflect the mob’s strikes, due to her belief that “nobody deserves to be hurt.”
rRDP4 TIL after the 2001 Anthrax Attacks, a postal facility in Brentwood, Washington DC was contaminated with the spores & remained closed for 24 months. Its clean up process cost $125 million
QJR9X TIL the zipper brand, YKK, makes everything they use in their production processes, in-house. From the machines they use to make their zippers, to smelting their own brass - they even make the boxes they ship their zippers in.