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TIL That Nigerian Prince e-mail scams are intentionally obvious to MOST people

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4kk06 TIL the Star Trek franchise has a total runtime of about a month.
E8OW TIL that Pluto had not completed one full orbit between the time it was discovered and when it was declassified as a planet.
J7kB TIL A 17-year-old girl named Jackie Mitchell pitched against the New York Yankees in 1931 and struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig
VB0oQ TIL Town Line, New York seceded from the Union and joined the Confederacy.
6EJ67 TIL the Tsar Bomba, the largest ever nuclear bomb detonated, was originally designed to yield 100 megatons. However, Sakharov was very apprehensive about the amount of radiation it would create, and therefore replaced the bombs innovative uranium layers with lead, halving the size of the blast.