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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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4V0g TIL that in 1998, Bill Gates earned $1 million per hour (and almost $300 per second).
0d09y TIL that in 1969, Honduras and El Salvador, who already had extreme tension, faced off in the 1970 FIFA qualifier. Game 1, won by Honduras, led to Salvadoran rioting, and Game 2, won by El Salvador, led to Honduran riots. After border skirmishes, this led to a four-day war known as the Football War.
rN4PM TIL that people from Swedish municipalities on the southern border with Norway are allowed to use the state-of-the-art hospital right across the border in Kalnes, Norway in emergencies and births, which is much closer to them than any hospital in Sweden.
ADvra TIL of Vasili Mitrokhin, a KGB archivist who kept a vast collection of handwritten notes on top secret files. When he defected to British Intelligence in 1992, he brought six trunks of notes with him that exposed most KGB activities in the West during the Cold War
9YojX TIL that a Hawaiian folk story told of how a goddess named Kohe-kohe-lele, meaning "Kapo with the flying vagina", saved her sister from being assaulted by a half-man, half-hog fertility god named Kampua'a by detaching her vagina and luring an intrigued Kampua'a to the edge of the country.