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TIL since 1950 the United States has lost a total of 8 nuclear bombs

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mxA6o TIL in January 2021, a human foot found in a field in Gatesfield, England, turned out to be a potato.
oYZK TIL that in Soviet Russia, rebellious teenagers who mimicked the Beatles’ hair were arrested and forced to have their hair cut in police stations
78lA7 TIL that the culpeo, a South American fox species, was domesticated by the Selk'nam people of Tierra del Fuego, resulting in the "Fuegian dog". However, the Fuegian dog became extinct in the late 19th or early 20th century as a result of the genocide the Selk'nam people.
vaQ4 TIL King George V’s physician gave the dying king a lethal dosage of morphine and cocaine to hasten his death so that it could be announced in the morning edition of The Times rather than “less appropriate evening journals”
1DOO TIL on the night of May 27, 1991, a drugged, naked, bleeding boy of 14 was found in a Milwaukee street. When police arrived, they returned the boy to the control of Jeffery Dahmer, who almost immediately killed and dismembered the boy. 2 women who argued with the police were threatened with arrest.