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TIL that M&M stands for Mars and Murrie’s

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XKZR TIL that there is a a font that makes reading text easier for people with dyslexia
LQAG0 TIL an innovative satellite launched in 1962, Telstar 1, was accidentally damaged beyond use by Cold War nuclear bombs. After transmitting the first TV and phone signals and images from space, it broke down due to damage from Soviet & American nuclear tests, but still orbits the earth today.
9YOG TIL that there is a shipwreck in the Thames Estuary containing at least 1,400 tonnes of TNT high explosives including 2,000 cases of cluster bombs and if it exploded could be one of the largest non-nuclear explosions ever and create a small tsunami.
69Pym TIL the Westinghouse Electric Corporation built the first industrial Van de Graaff generator. It was called the Atom Smasher, and looked like a light bulb. It was instrumental in the development of practical nuclear science.
LQ5X9 TIL that the Catholic Church in USA and Europe outsources its Mass Intention requests to India