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TIL The United States of America has nuked inside it’s own borders at least 988 times. That’s only slightly less than the number of nuclear weapon tests conduct by the rest of the world combined at ~1,011.

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9YkOX TIL after Nicole van den Hurk's death, her stepbrother falsely confessed to the killing in order to get her body exhumed for DNA tests, leading to the arrest and prosecution of her real attacker
wPAJ TIL a man committed to a high-security psychiatric hospital 7 years ago for fabricating a story of large scale money-laundering at a major bank is to have his case reviewed after internal bank documents proving the validity of his claims have been leaked.
PQVE TIL that sharks dont have a urinary system and excrete urea through their skin. After catching a shark it needs to be bled quickly to rid the shark of the urea in the blood which can ruin the meat.
Wk66X TIL that there is a Jewish myth about a giant lion called Tigris. The lion had a head 21 feet (9 cubits) wide. In the myth, Tigris roared, women within 2200 kilometers miscarried and a city was destroyed. Tigris roared a second time and the teeth of the men looking for Tigris fell out
loMo1 TIL in 1922, the Cardinals and Cubs traded two players in the middle of a double header. The players just switched uniforms, as names didn’t become standard on uniforms until the 1960s.