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TIL: Tumbleweeds are not indigenous to North America and were likely not around during the wild west.

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x65vo TIL in 1958 a nighttime training exercise resulted in a mid-air collision between an F-86 Sabre and a B-47 Startojet. To save the aircraft, the B-47 crew ditched their nuclear payload to save weight. The undetonated weapon is believed to have sunk near Tybee Island and remains unrecovered today.
VMw54 TIL Beetles are the most diverse order of life on our planet and have been around since the days of Pangaea.
GYWyN TIL a Hungarian chemist during WWII hid his Nobel Prize by dissolving it in acid and leaving it on a shelf due to the Nazi ban on its citizens from accepting the Nobel Prize. After the war, he reconstituted the gold from the acid, returned it to Sweden, and got the medal cast again.
Wow9 TIL Yogi Bear as well as many other Hanna-Barbera cartoons, were given white collars so the Animators would have to draw less. Redrawing only his head in each frame when he spoke.
X0n9E TIL that the Chattahoochee River that starts in Georgia is over 100 million years old, while the Hudson River in New York is only about 13 to 26 thousand years old.