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TIL in 1962 the US detonated a nuclear bomb in space

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Oob4a TIL the CIA headquarters has its own Starbucks, but baristas don't write names on the cups.
kOxK4 TIL that the Great Smog of London killed in only 4 days, 4.000 people, made 150.000 people ill and killed 8.000 additional people in the months that followed of related diseases whereas in the Chernobyl disaster 31 people died and an additional 4.000 died of related diseases.
R7Ml1 TIL on the Lewis and Clark expedition in order to speak to a indian tribe they spoke English to a man who knew French that spoke to a man who knew French and Hidatsa so he told his wife Sacagawea who knew Hidatsa and Shoshone then she would tell the tribes slave who knew Shoshone and Salishan.
5YRB8 TIL about Yangnyeom chicken, a variety of Korean fried chicken. Its creator, Yoon Jonggye, devised it by analysing his customers' leftovers.
korB TIL that candles lit in microgravity (i.e., space) burn not with a yellow, tapered flame, but with a spherical, nearly invisible blue flame