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TIL nukes can have their yield ‘dialed’ or adjusted up or down, from city-buster to tiny puff of single kiloton smoke, while in the silo or even in flight.

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BNKb TIL After Christian Slater took the place of River Phoenix in “Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles” he donated his entire paycheck from the movie to all of River’s favorite charities.
MeG4A TIL The fact that animals move from one place to another, without any apparent external cause and often in complicated and unpredictable ways, fascinated Aristotle. Instead of muscles Aristotle had theories on "neura" – usually translated as ‘sinews’ or ‘tendons’
LkaBZ TIL about Stuckie the coon hound that in 1960 chased a racoon 28 feet up inside the hollow trunk of a tree, then got stuck up there until loggers cut the tree down in 1980. He was mummified and almost perfectly preserved due to the tannins in the tree and inaccessibility to predators.
m1O5P TIL Nunchaku (nunchuks) are illegal in Massachusetts
mPDO TIL that there’s a Russian “platypus”, the Desman is nearly blind, aquatic and looks like a cross between an anteater, a mole and a river rat.