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TIL that at the height of the space race, the US planned to detonate a nuclear bomb on the moon as a display of America's Cold War muscle.

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wx5o TIL Afghanistan has cost the U.S. more than the Marshall Plan
7rGdL TIL apes never ask questions. Apes are able to learn sign language and even communicate using it, apes have never attempted to learn new knowledge by asking humans or other apes. Apes can't realize that others can know things they don't. It's a concept that separates humans from apes.
WXk8 TIL Nintendo has banked so much money, that they could run a deficit of over $250 Million every year and still survive until 2052.
lEra TIL that in China, more than 30 million people live in caves. Also that in the stone age there were only 5 million people on the earth, meaning that there are more cavemen now than there have ever been.
9G7G TIL - In 1942 the BBC banned the song ‘Deep In the Heart of Texas’ during work hours on the grounds that its infectious melody might cause wartime factory-hands to neglect their tools while they clapped in time with the song.