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TIL the US military had a backpack nuke (S.A.D.M.) that could be carried by a single person.

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4XbOJ TIL that babies cry when they are born because they are bruised and sore from the trauma of birth
GYx15 TIL In 1945 Roman Catholic nun Elise Rivet volunteered to go to the gas chamber in place of a mother at the Ravensbruck concentration camp. Less than two months before Germany surrendered she was killed at the age of 55.
awPRo TIL Chinese wildlife trade industry is worth around $76 billion and employs more than 14 million people.
OEwg TIL Humans are closer in time to Tyrannosaurus Rex than Tyrannosaurus Rex is to the Stegosaurus.
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