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TIL that just one minute prior to the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, US Planes dropped an unsigned letter over the city addressed to professor Ryokichi Sagane, who had studied with three of the scientists who worked on the Manhattan Project, urging him to tell the public about the danger of the bombs.

9RYQ TIL That Canada is the only host nation in the history of the games not to win a gold medal in their own Summer Olympic Games (Montreal 1976)
b6oxZ TIL In 1999 Tiger Woods hit a tee shot that landed behind a boulder. The boulder was ruled a 'loose impedement' which allowed it to be moved. Several of Tiger's gallery and his caddie worked together to move the boulder, allowing Tiger to birdie the hole.
g1g9 TIL that a lovestruck 13 year old girl of Houston, Texas attempted to drive all the way(with her mothers car) to her 12 year old lover she met in Xbox Live, who just happened to live in Kentucky. She was stopped at Tenesssee before she could get to her “boyfriend’s” place.
9wWMD TIL Radiohead seventh studio album In Rainbows was released under a pay-what-you-want model, in which fans could pay the price they desired, including downloading the entire album for free. Many customers in turned paid and they gained more profits because of this marketing strategy.
e0l65 TIL Towser the Mouser was a tortoiseshell cat that caught more than 28,000 mice at the Famous Grouse Whiskey distillery in Scotland. She’s in the Guinness Book of Records as best mouser, and they have a statue of her at the distillery.