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TIL: The entire energy released by the Hiroshima nuclear explosion came from only 0.5g of Uranium

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loGOV TIL that it is illegal to die in Longyearbyen , Svalbard group of islands in Norway.
8eAmV TIL About Billy Mitchell who pushed for air power between WWs 1 and 2. He proved air superiority by bombing captured german warships after WW1 using bombers. For his efforts he was court marshaled and resigned from the military. After his death, he was given a Congressional Medal of Honor
LQWOd TIL the term "conspiracy theory" is itself the subject of a conspiracy theory whereby the CIA intentionally popularized it after the Kennedy assassination to discredit and ridicule conspiratorial believers
PRRV TIL the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, NYC is so polluted that unidentifiable new forms of microbiological life have arisen in its sludge
Lpa9 TIL a grown man once hunted down and attacked a child who had killed him several times in Call Of Duty.