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TIL the Tsar bomba was so powerful it broke window panes 560 miles away, equivalent to the approx. distance from London to Berlin or Manhattan to Charlotte, NC.

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nejN7 TIL in England, after 2 thieves broke into a mans home and made off with his laptop, they inspected the device, found serious child abuse material and went to the cops regardless. The paedophile got 3 yrs in jail. The judge gave robbers a 12 month community service orders in light of their good deed
wo8kE TIL that the FDA regulates pet food like they do human food, and it has to be edible by humans!
R7MJ8 TIL of Gino Bartali, a cyclist who used his fame as a winner of the Tour de France to smuggle counterfeit documents hidden inside his bicycle through Nazi checkpoints in WWII Italy under the guise of training. These documents allowed as many as 800 Jews to escape persecution by the Nazis.
mM TIL that without the support of Lucille Ball (“I Love Lucy”) Star Trek may have ceased to exist.
OoYkg TIL of of Chloe Phillips-Harris, who was denied access to Kazakhstan in 2016 under the guise that New Zealand did not exist because the map in the detention room did not include it