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TIL there have been more than 2000 nuclear explosions worldwide. This is a time-lapse video of every detonation since 1945.

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l4XK TIL If you thoroughly shuffle a deck of playing cards, you’ll end up with a sequence which has (probably) never existed before. There are 8,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 different combinations.
KBEE TIL that Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Buzz Aldren couldn’t afford the NASA life insurance policy. Also, before launch, the three signed hundreds of autographs to be given to their families should they not return so they would have valuable memorabilia to sell.
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