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TIL that in 1958, the U.S. accidentally dropped a nuclear bomb on a South Carolina family's backyard. While it wasn’t armed with a nuclear warhead, the conventional explosives detonated, leaving a large crater and damaging the house. Amazingly, no one was killed in what became known as the Mars

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Ypv0r TIL Rita Moreno is one of the few artists to have won all four major annual American entertainment awards: Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and a Tony. She is also one of 23 people who have achieved what is called the Triple Crown of Acting, with individual competitive Academy, Emmy and Tony awards for acting.
1ler TIL In 1994 the UK, USA and the Russian Federation signed the Budapest Memorandum where by Ukraine gave up the the 3rd largest nuclear arsenal in the world in exchange for security assurances from those three countries.
w5KP TIL a harpoon fragment patented in 1879 was found in a bowhead whale in 2007, indicating the whale was between 115 and 130 years old.
MxPK TIL: China used RPGs to disperse rain clouds during the olympics
E6kW TIL Drinking watermelon juice before a workout helps reduce muscle soreness.