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TIL Squid Games is based on Brothers Home in Busan, Korea in the 1970's and 80's

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nWnBB TIL that Edward Teller, the father of the hydrogen bomb, once proposed a 10 gigaton bomb. It would have been 670,000x stronger than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, and 200x stronger than the Tsar Bomba, the largest bomb ever created. It's estimated to have been able to set all of France on fire.
ZYPQ TIL the last veteran of the American Civil War died in 1956.
KJY9 TIL that German journalists have a word, “widow shaking” for the practice of aggressively getting sob story material from relatives of disaster or crime victims.
Zpa8Q TIL that the former head of the United Mine Workers of America had his former opponent and family killed on 12/31/69.
KOZ6a TIL that pine needles are actually modified leaves, with a shape evolved to shed snow more easily, and with natural antifreeze called cryoprotectants that prevent cellular damage during the cold winter months.