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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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WkoVd TIL of "Better Days" by Natalia Gutierrez Y Angelo, a 2010 Colombian song with a secret hidden message in Morse code meant for the soldiers kidnapped by the FARC (Colombian guerilla). The message was "19 people rescued. You are next. Don’t lose hope."
mNkv TIL that Clarence Thomas, the only African-American currently a Supreme Court judge, opposes Affirmative Action because it discriminatory.
OG5pX TIL 75 percent of adults need some form of vision correction (but not all of them get it). 64 percent of them wear glasses, more women wear glasses than men, and more women wear glasses than don't
Dv9D TIL less than 5% of current deforestation in the Amazon is due to logging. The majority is for cattle ranching.
awPY0 TIL that a large part of the hanging gardens of Babylon were destroyed in order to build a parking lot and helicopter landing zone