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TIL we tried fracking with nukes in the 60s, and only stopped because the gas was too radioactive to use

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OQ4Y TIL that when William “The Refrigerator” Perry Sold his Superbowl ring in 2011, a 10 year old kid bought it with his college savings and gave it back to him.
0W5v TIL that Edgar Allan Poe died at age 40 after being found on a Baltimore street delirious “in great distress, and… in need of immediate assistance”. He never regained coherency before his death and to this day, the cause of his death remains a mystery.
E157x TIL that the Federal Reserve is a PRIVATE CORPORATION
y7Ew TIL of the Columbine Massacre (Not the Columbine you’re thinking of). On this day in 1927, a fight between Colorado State Police and unarmed striking coal miners led to machine guns being fired into the crowd of miners. Six miners were killed and dozens were injured.
Zp81p TIL Leo Marks, WWII cryptographer, discovered that Dutch intelligence was compromised when coded messages came through with zero typos or grammar errors. The grammar Nazis were, in fact, actual Nazis.