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TIL King Zog of Albania survived 55 assasination attempts
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TIL: USAF Project Thor (aka “Rods from God”) consisted of dropping telephone pole sized tungsten rods from space. This would provide global strike faster than an ICBM, be nearly impossible to defend against, and would hit the earth at Mach 10 causing the devastation of a tactical nuclear warhead.
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TIL that the sun loses about 6 million tons of mass every second due to nuclear fusion and the solar wind. Despite constantly losing large sums of mass, it has only lost roughly 0.05% of its original mass over the last 4.5 billion years.
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TIL: Fashionable women have been dying their hair pink as early as the 1910's
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TIL that the official multi-nation search for the doomed MH 370 aircraft was the largest and most expensive aviation search in history. 19 vessels and 345 aircraft sorties combed 4.6 million square kilometers of the Southern Indian Ocean for an approximated cost of US$155 million.
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TIL that in 1951, 250 people were poisoned by "cursed bread" made with flour tainted with fungus in a small town in France. 50 people were interned in asylums and there were 7 deaths!