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TIL Galileo’s middle finger is up for display at a museum in Florence, Italy

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dDR6Q TIL mushroom clouds can be caused by any powerful explosion, not just nuclear, and there are depictions of them in art since the 1700's
DQpeg TIL the longest ever tank-to-tank killshot was scored by a British tank crew during the Gulf War (1990). It was from over 2.9 miles (about 4.7 km).
R51nj TIL that before they became movie models, the Warner Brothers ran a bicycle shop in Youngstown, Ohio.
peb8 TIL:Sophie Scholl was a German woman executed by the Nazis for distributing anti-Nazi pamphlets.Her last words were: “How can we expect righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone willing to offer themselves up individually for a righteous cause? Such a fine, sunny day, and I have to go.”
Z86ZR TIL that the commonly cited “unemployment rate” does not include adults who are unable to work or who have given up on finding a job. Accounting for these, 47.2% of the US population is unemployed.