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TIL in January 1968 a US bomber carrying four nuclear weapons crashed into an ice sheet in Greenland. Only three of the bombs were found, one still remains missing.

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a8DJN TIL Mice don’t actually like cheese and are even repelled by many cheeses due to the smell. If they’re hungry enough they’ll try to eat anything, but they won’t actively seek out cheese.
xBlo TIL a man was executed for starting the Great Fire of London after he claimed he threw a fire-bomb through a bakery window. This was despite the fact that he was heavily crippled, the bakery had no windows, and it was proven at his trial that he was not even in the country at the time.
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AZX7 TIL a pastor of the Protestant Church in the Netherlands who is a priest for over 30 years is known as the atheist pastor because he doesn’t believe in God.