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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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