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TIL Louis C.K. portrayed Brendon Small’s father, Andrew Small, in Home Movies.

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gQyW TIL When the A Bomb was dropped in Hiroshima, the light from the fireball was so intense that it melted the copper in the surrounding buildings.
6Bx8 TIL in 1992 29,000 “bath toys” fell off a container ship near the coast of Alaska. Since then the yellow duckies have been washing up in places such as Scotland, Japan, Maine and the Arctic.
eb0D TIL Sally Ride, the first American woman in space, was gay, as well as NASA’s first LGBT+ astronaut (that we know of).
wLWE1 TIL the USA state of Vermont has more miles of unpaved roads than paved roads.
v1MWK TIL that a solar storm in 2012 with a strong Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) missed Earth by nine days. Had the CME hit Earth, it would have inflicted serious damage to worldwide electronic systems and cost up to $2.6 trillion. The recovery time from such a disaster would have been about 4 to 10 years