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TIL that US nearly detonated atomic bomb over North Carolina after a plane crash in 1961

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vPBeD TIL since 1881 people have been working on the Swiss Idiotikon a dictionary of Swiss German words. The word "Idiotikon" is a term derived from the Greek idios "separate, proper, private" for a dictionary that lists the vocabulary "peculiar" to a particular landscape.
Yp4Od TIL about the Zambian space program in the 1960s, which aimed to send a woman (an afronaut) and 2 cats to the moon using a 2x3 metre drum rocket to establish a Christian ministry to the primitive martians
Qvep TIL That Macdonalds recycles the oil they use to cook as biofuel for (some of) their delivery trucks.
e0mgD TIL NASA once raided a Denny's as part of a sting operation to bust a 75 year old woman for possessing and attempting to sell a moon rock the size of a rice grain
no7B TIL that four boys and a dog set out on an adventure in Dordogne, France. When the boys decided to explore the hole, they slid into a deep underground chamber where they discovered the most famous cave paintings in the world- the Lascaux Cave Paintings.