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TIL The US has a cluster bomb which drops a fine cloud of carbon powder filaments, that destroys power stations and power lines

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vPvlK TIL that in 1986, the Rodney Dangerfield comedy "Back to School" was a bigger US box office hit than "Aliens".
jN6dp "If an asteroid hits the moon, it will just get another crater," says Gareth Wynn-Williams, an astronomer at the University of Hawaii. It would take a moon-size object to move the moon, says Clark Chapman, a planetary scientist at the Southwest Research Institute, and most likely the moon wouldn't survive. Hitting it with a much larger, denser object would be like whacking an egg with a golf club.
YppWv TIL A&E created a list of the 100 most influential people of the last millennium and it was topped by Johannes Gutenberg, creator of the printing press
kJePg TIL Martin Landau had a brief career as a comic strip artist before going into acting.
KPn9 TIL professional hockey player Luke Piggott made a huge breakthrough in the fight against breast cancer, when he discovered how to kill breast cancer stem cells. He trains every morning with his team and then heads straight to the lab to conduct his cancer research.