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TIL of Operation Plumbbob, where a nuclear bomb was detonated in a vertical tunnel with a 2,000lb (900kg) metal plate plugging the surface. The plate was launched into the air at 6 times Earth's escape velocity

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LkejV TIL that a skinny person has a more inefficient/slow metabolism rather than a fast metabolism
16rd7 TIL that Huey and Riley from Boondocks were voiced by the same woman, Regina King.
VGJp TIL that when former president Teddy Roosevelt died in his sleep in 1919, Thomas R. Marshall, the sitting vice-president, said “Death had to take Roosevelt sleeping, for if he had been awake, there would have been a fight.”
6ENZJ TIL the Unabomber was a math prodigy, started at Harvard at 16, and received his Masters and his PhD in mathematics by the time he was 25. He also had an IQ of 167.
66LJ TIL the Japanese have a word Tsujigiri (辻斬) which means to test out a new sword on a random passerby.