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TIL Nagasaki was not the primary target for ‘Fat Man’. The neighboring city of Kokura was the intended target, but due to unfavorable weather conditions, Nagasaki was bombed instead.

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1aD4X TIL During the 1960s the US government sprayed chemical weapons throughout poor neighborhoods of St. Louis without the residents knowledge as part of a chemical weapons test.
DQDXJ TIL that it would take ~18months to walk the Great Wall of China 🇨🇳
M7PrK TIL over 50,000 homeowner insurance claims were denied after Hurricane Helene/Milton in Florida
9YYXG Short answer: Pigments offer protection
RZLw TIL that Houston airport received an inordinate number of complaints about baggage wait times. In response, officials moved baggage claim farther away so the walk was longer than the wait. The number of complaints plummeted to “near zero.”