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TIL A nuclear bomb was accidentally dropped on or near Tybee Island, GA. It didn’t detonate, some saying it didn’t have a fuse, but has also never been located.

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l7YNA TIL about Low-Background Steel, which is any steel made before the first nuclear explosion. It is used for very sensitive equipment like Geiger counter
jXdp TIL Helsinki is expanding below the surface. Incised into the city’s bedrock are a swimming pool, a shopping area, a church, and a hockey rink. Just to name a few facilities besides 40 miles of tunnels for heating and “parking caverns”. They plan to built 400 buildings until 2020.
ADxd7 TIL of the theft of the Irish Crown Jewels, stolen in 1907, shortly before the visit of King Edward VII Today they would be valued at several million euro. They were never Recovered.
AD6e7 TIL Not only is field hockey the national sport of Pakistan, but the national team has won four Hockey World Cup championships, eight gold medals at the Asian Games, and the only Asian team to win the Champions Trophy (three wins).
0dv1v TIL Prior to 1970 most Pistachios were dyed red!