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TIL photoflash bombs existed. Dropped by reconnaissance aircraft, these 100lb bombs created a blinding 500,000,000 candlepower burst of light, enabling nighttime aerial reconnaissance photography from high-altitude

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8eloP TIL the peace symbol was designed by Gerald Holtom in 1958 and is a super-imposition of the semaphore signals for the letters "N" and "D", taken to stand for "nuclear disarmament".
8kxL TIL The 27th amendment was originally amongst the group of Amendments considered for the Bill of rights in 1789, but was passed in 1992 after a student researching for his government class realized it was still alive, but had not yet gotten enough states to sign off on it.
7r6dL TIL The 2nd controller on NES, controls the duck in Duck Hunt
1aD5O TIL real human skulls are traded on Instagram by a small but active underground collectors’ market. The skulls are decorated and sold by macabre enthusiasts. Some sell for tens of thousands of dollars.
r5po TIL that in 2011, a 75 year-old woman accidentally cut the fiber optic cable that provides internet to 90% of Armenia.