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TIL that there was a real life Fat Man from the Fallout series (which is a portable mini nuclear warhead launcher) created by the US Military in 1961 called the Davey Crockett. It never saw use in combat.

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N7j4P TIL Known for her tense thrillers such as The Talented Mr. Ripley, novelist Patricia Highsmith preferred snails to people.
OoJ1 TIL a Polar bear attacked a US Submarine when it broke through sea ice in 2003
JYGaB TIL in Japan, when you buy a car, you have to prove you have somewhere to park it
ywY8 TIL That a cloud can weigh more than a million pounds.
4Xoa6 TIL of the Staten Island Quarantine War, which began in 1800 the City of New York began quarantining patients on nearby Staten Island. Locals resisted for years, ultimately burning down the facility. At trial the leaders of the attack successfully argued that they had destroyed it in self-defense.