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TIL Teddy Roosevelt saved American football from becoming extinct due to the excessive fatalities and “blood baths” the sport once caused

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GAep5 TIL that in 1958, the U.S. government accidentally dropped a nuclear bomb on a family's backyard in Mars Bluff, South Carolina. The bomb’s nuclear core was not installed, so it didn’t cause a nuclear explosion, but the conventional explosives detonated, leaving a massive crater and damaging the home
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