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woyn6 TIL the Canadian Government once approved a plan to extract oil from the Alberta oilsands using nukes, and the project only died because public opinion on nuclear devices soured after the Cuban Missile Crisis.
MD6a TIL that bees don’t generally die when they sting. They die when they sting a human or other animal with similarly thick skin, but can sting other insects just fine.
rdYW TIL the Pentagon received the Pigasus award in 1981 for spending $6 million to determine whether burning the photo of a Soviet missile would destroy the missile.
NX698 TIL in 1988 East German government held Bruce Springsteen concert in order to appease youth. It backfired when he gave speech in German about tear down the barriers.
Lkpvr TIL that for 2-syllable heteronyms (in English) that have 1 noun meaning and 1 verb meaning, there exist a pattern where the noun is 1st syllable stressed and the verb is 2nd syllable stressed, e.g Present, Record, Contract, Project, Insult