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TIL of Locksmith Scam: people using Google Ads to advertise $15 service, then claiming the service is harder than they thought, bumping the price to $350

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MeNeB TIL about the "Dumbest Member of Congress" William L. Scott, US Senator from Virginia who being briefed by members of the military about missile silos in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, reportedly said "Wait a minute! I'm not interested in agriculture. I want the military stuff."
b6kLa TIL . . . about Sadako Sasaki's poignant story in Hiroshima. Despite illness from the atomic bomb, she folded cranes for healing. Though she's gone, her legacy thrives. Thousands of cranes sent yearly echo her hope and strength.
6EJ67 TIL the Tsar Bomba, the largest ever nuclear bomb detonated, was originally designed to yield 100 megatons. However, Sakharov was very apprehensive about the amount of radiation it would create, and therefore replaced the bombs innovative uranium layers with lead, halving the size of the blast.
a81Dy TIL that despite more than 30,000 dying in the Battle of Waterloo and being buried in mass graves on the battleground, only two complete skeletons have ever been found there.
o6Lo TIL Medieval MMA exists in Russia.