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Today I learned that there are two golf balls on the moon

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JX9k TIL the Tsar Bomba, the single most physically powerful device ever used by mankind, had a mushroom cloud measuring over 7 times the height of Mt Everest. The shockwave was measured circling the earth 3 times and it caused windowpanes to be partially broken at distances of 900 kilometres (560 mi)
X0XMj TIL a wealthy New York family originally made their fortune from a brothel during the gold rush
1PK7 TIL there were so many mummified cats excavated in Egypt that 19 tons of them were shipped to England to be used as fertilizer
QJXre TIL Sharks love heavy metal because the low-frequency vibrations are similar to the sounds made by struggling fish
BrPQL TIL that modern tank guns are not rifled; they are smoothbore like a musket. Instead of firing shells, they fire an armor-piercing dart made of depleted uranium or tungsten, which is held in the center of the barrel by a discarding sabot.