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TIL Tectonic plates move roughly at the same rate that your fingernails grow

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QJ9LM TIL about John Howard Griffin, who is best known for his project to temporarily pass as a black man and journey through the Deep South of 1959 to see life and segregation from the other side of the color line.
5VLJr TIL The US had drones during WWII
WkkJd TIL In 1961 a B-52 bomber broke up in mid-air and dropped an armed nuclear bomb near the city of Goldsboro, NC. The bomb did not detonate but the recently declassified report said that "one simple, dynamo-technology, low voltage switch stood between the United States and a major catastrophe".
9KK7 TIL Holy Roman Emperor Charles V was one of the first people to propose creating a Panama Canal
699rX TIL Harry Dean Stanton taught Paul Newman to play "Plastic Jesus" on the banjo for his scene in Cool Hand Luke.