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TIL many people in New Mexico saw the Trinity nuclear test from a distance, but the Army downplayed it as an ammunition magazine explosion

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Oo7N4 TIL that Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech is under copyright. The speech will remain under copyright in the United States until 70 years after King's death, through 2038.
8eMvK TIL Jimmy Carter is the only US president who has reported seeing an UFO
Wr18 TIL detoxication and purging with any juice fast kick or detox box is a marketed misleading concept which got no scientific medical evidence.
rNX5e TIL Peruvian rubber baron Carlos Scharff, once referred to as “the most notorious of all rubber gatherers in the Upper Amazon region, “ was killed during a mutiny that occurred on Peruvian Independence Day in 1909.
5YOx8 TIL that there is a widespread belief—one with no historical or grammatical foundation—that it is an error to begin a sentence with a conjunction such as and, but or so. In fact, a substantial percentage (often as many as 10 percent) of the sentences in first-rate writing begin with conjunctions.