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TIL that the person who named "America" intended it to apply only to a specific part of Brazil

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rNn0e TIL the Prince song 1999 was inspired by a documentary on Nostradamus and is about an imagined party during the end of the world.
5YkRr TIL about the Journal of Universal Rejection, an academic publication where all submissions, regardless of quality, are rejected.
aXMb TIL that while the U.S. was researching nuclear devices, there was a certain sphere of plutonium dubbed the “Demon Core,” as it went supercritical and killed two scientists on two different occasions as they were studying it.
67AJ TIL that when a massive power outage struck southern California in the 1990s, Los Angeles residents called 911 to express alarm about strange clouds hovering overhead; they were seeing the Milky Way for the first time due to the lack of light pollution.
Z84Aa TIL the last successful bayonet charge was in 2011 by the British Army against the Taliban in Afghanistan.