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TIL A "boneappletea" moment like "escape goat" or "all intensive purposes" is actually called an Eggcorn.

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R5Dll TIL the most powerful nuclear bomb ever detonated was over 3,000x more powerful than the one dropped on Hiroshima. It was large enough to completely level the entire state of Rhode Island.
jBoN TIL that the decisive vote to ratify the 19th Amendment came from from a legislator who switched after receiving a telegram from his mother asking him to “be a good boy”.
R7k64 TIL The Vatican recognizes the 1982 apparition of the Virgin Mary in Rwanda, where she appeared to three young girls and foretold of the blood and horror of the 1994 genocide. The girls said they spent countless hours in conversations with Mary, who called herself Nyina wa Jambo, Mother of the Word
Vx10 TIL while in middle-school, Bill Gates and Paul Allen had their computer privileges revoked for taking advantage of software glitches to obtain free computer time from the company that provided the computers. They were allowed back in the computer lab when they offered to debug the program.
Db7e TIL the scientist, Clair Patterson, who helped develop the atomic bomb, also saved humanity by stopping the use of Leaded Gasoline.