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TIL the division sign symbol is called obelus. I guess there's a name for everything...

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EY00 TIL In 1958 the US air force accidently dropped a nuclear bomb on South Carolina.
XB5k TIL that the concept/ticketing of jaywalking in the U.S. was started by a propaganda campaign by the automotive industry in the 1920s.
J1Xy4 TIL if you want to look for the Northern Lights online, the live feeds for Air Greenland will often have them streaming.
l7517 TIL France detonated its 1st atomic bomb, the Blue Jerboa, on Feb. 13, 1960 in Saharan Algeria. This was the 1st of 17 nuclear weapons detonations that occurred in the area between 1960 & 1966. The Blue Jerboa was 3 times more powerful than the atomic bomb the US dropped on Nagasaki, Japan in 1945.
wooM7 TIL about the Ibadan forest of horror, in which peoples bodyparts were harvested to be sold for ritual sacrifice.