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TIL that the US Air Force lost a nuclear bomb off the coast of Georgia and it was never recovered.

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78oEr TIL Aretha Franklin required that she be paid in cash before any performance. The cash went into her handbag and the handbag either stayed with her security team or would rest on the piano during her onstage performance.
WkBrL TIL there is a scoring system for UNO. Once a player has no cards remaining, he receives all opponents’ cards and points are counted.
o9oW TIL while in college Deion Sanders played in the first game of a double header in baseball, ran a leg on his track teams 4x100 meter relay, and then came back and played the second game of his double header all in the same day. He is also the only person to play in the super bowl and world series.
QJN7p TIL about Vardavar: an Armenian festival during which people spend a day throwing water on each other.
Y7kaW TIL Henri LaMothe used to dive from a platform 40 feet in the air into a kiddie pool filled with 15 inches of water. He continued doing this well into his 70's