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TIL France detonated its 1st atomic bomb, the Blue Jerboa, on Feb. 13, 1960 in Saharan Algeria. This was the 1st of 17 nuclear weapons detonations that occurred in the area between 1960 & 1966. The Blue Jerboa was 3 times more powerful than the atomic bomb the US dropped on Nagasaki, Japan in 1945.

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x6kr5 TIL about Gary DeVore, a screenwriter, who disappeared in 1997 while night driving from Santa Fe, NM to Santa Barbara, CA. A year after disappearing, Devore and his Ford Explorer were found in an aqueduct in Palmdale, CA. Devore's hands, script and gun were missing. His death remains a mystery.
AZ8B TIL the Swiss army accidentally invaded the Liechtenstein, two times.
yVk6l TIL that there are more trees on Earth than there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy.
woK47 TIL Every mosquito species lands different on a surface and only the malaria carrying kind lands in a 45 degree angle. The other species land parallel to the surface
rRgBM TIL Ron Popeil was a college drop out and his Showtime Rotisserie & BBQ sold over eight million units in the US alone