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TIL that in the 18th century, to ‘break a leg’ was a euphemism for a woman having an illegitimate child

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16y0W TIL the US once accidentally dropped two nuclear bombs on North Carolina, and one nearly detonated. The only thing that prevented a nuclear disaster was a single low-voltage safety switch.
PYRwG TIL Benedict Cumberbatch was kidnapped by armed robbers in South Africa in 2005
LZRV TIL that apples are originally from Kazakhstan.
a8DDM TIL - There are over 130 Pop songs that use the same 4 chord progression. A 2009 song by the comedy group The Axis of Awesome, called "Four Chords", demonstrated the ubiquity of the progression in popular music
R745w TIL Tim Wong made the first and only successful attempt at singlehandedly repopulating the extremely rare pipevine swallowtail butterfly in San Francisco. In seven years, he cultivated more than 200 pipevine plants (sole food source) and donates thousands of caterpillars to the Botanical Gardens.