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TIL the Python programming language was named after Monty Python

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GRPE TIL in 1961 a b-52 broke apart mid air over Goldsboro, North Carolina causing two nuclear bombs to fall. One parachute functioned properly, that bomb survived. When the other bomb hit the ground 5 out of 6 safety devices malfunctioned, a single switch prevented a nuclear explosion.
5Y5Z9 TIL that the last surviving Nuremberg prosecutor (age 97) says that what he witnessed in Europe still haunts him “every single day of his life.”
v1PX4 TIL antidisestablishmentarianism isn't actually in the dictionary
XE4PR TIL The African Lungfish has the ability to survive outside of water for up to a year.
mxddO TIL That April 11, 1954 is officially the most boring and uneventful day of the 20th century, according to an extensive study of over 300 million events.