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TIL Bob Dylan missed Woodstock, after being invited, because he didn’t like hippies.

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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)
negNP TIL During the Great Depression, members of the Civilian Conservation Corps planted over 3 billion trees in the US in under ten years.
xV9PB TIL that Purgatory in the Divine Comedy (1320) is a mountain situated on the opposite end of the world to Jerusalem, and Dante and Virgil reach it by going to the centre of the Earth (via Hell) and up the other side. This is because the Medieval world, and hence Dante, knew the Earth was a sphere.
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9bkm TIL there is no such thing as a true one-way mirror; they are equally as reflective on each side, but one room is kept much darker than the other room, thus preventing the lighter room from seeing through it.