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TIL There are 92 known cases of nuclear bombs lost at sea.

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yVWel TIL of The Phoebus cartel. It was an international cartel that controlled the manufacture and sale of light bulbs in much of Europe and North America. The cartel tested their bulbs and fined manufacturers for bulbs that lasted more than 1,000 hours.
LQvym TIL that Japan was the invitee in Copa America in 1999 and 2019.
QNaP9 TIL of Pre-Code Hollywood, a period that produced controversial movies between the invention of sound in films and enforcement of the MPA
wVeE TIL that children being born are the first in two centuries to have a lower life expectancy than their parents, and the cause of it is obesity
O0rX TIL In the early 1960s, the US military dispersed 480,000,000 copper needles in orbit around the Earth, in a failed attempt at creating an artificial ionosphere to improve radio communication. Many of the needles are still up there today.