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TIL the Tsar Bomba, the single most physically powerful device ever used by mankind, caused windowpanes to be partially broken at distances of 900 kilometres (560 mi).

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R7bb9 TIL: Honey doesn’t ever go off. You could, in theory, eat 3000 year old Honey and be absolutely fine.
VO0D TIL Vin Diesel is a huge fan of Dungeons & Dragons, having played it for over 20 years including nights off when he was a bouncer, and wrote the foreward to the commemorative book “30 Years of Adventure: A Celebration of Dungeons & Dragons”.
0wLby TIL experts believe that the elephants that live in Sri Lanka are the progeny of elephants that swam across from Southern India across the sea in search of food and water.
d8oK7 TIL of Unpaired Words, negative words whose positive forms are rare or no longer in use. For example, the opposites of 'overwhelmed', 'innocent', and 'inert' are the rarely heard 'whelmed', 'nocent', and 'ert'.
oBWR7 TIL selfies distort the face and can make the nose appear 30% larger than the rest of the face, and is linked to a rise in patients seeking nose jobs because they say their noses looked too big in their selfies