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TIL: The Upshot–Knothole Grable exercise was the only time a live nuclear artillery shell was fired

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rNAow TIL About a third of the elk in Yellowstone Park died as a result of the 1988 forest fires. The elk population had almost recovered by January 1995 when wolves were reintroduced. Since wolves are back in Yellowstone, the elk population has dropped about 80 percent.
wLvN1 TIL that the phrase "I know it when I see it" was popularized from a SCOTUS Justice to describe the threshold for "hard-core pornography".
vParD TIL: The Hudson Hornet from Cars was a real car that dominated NASCAR
8ob4 TIL Bruce Lee avoided baked goods and refined flour, describing them as providing empty calories which did nothing for his body.
4XBbw TIL that a judge said, "Mr. Mathers. Now is the time for you to please stand up." to Eminem in the sentencing for his 2001 weapons charge.