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TIL that General Motors and other companies would buy street cars and trains and scrap them to decrease public transportation competition

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XEyGE TIL that Johnny Cash once tried to fight an ostrich and lost, suffering two broken ribs and a gash to the stomach but a solid belt buckle saved him from further injury.
1adn4 TIL about St. Pierre and Miquelon, a territorial collectivity of France only 16 miles from Canada where the locals speak French, use the Euro and have French citizenship.
JmGv TIL that The Day After, a 1983 made- for- TV movie about nuclear war and it’s horrific effects, was watched by about 100 million people when it aired. President Reagan was left deeply depressed after viewing it, the film is now seen as having pushed him to start advocating nuclear disarmament
n6gd TIL the biggest bomb that ever exploded was a Russian Atom Bomb - All buildings located 55 km(34 mi) from ground zero were destroyed, heat from the explosion could have caused 3rd-degree burns 100 km(62 mi) away from ground zero and windowpanes were partially broken to distances of 900 km(560 mi)
rRBDw TIL: A Belgian priest named Georges Lemaître was the first to suggest the big bang theory as the origin of creation in the 1920s, when he theorized that the universe began from a single primordial atom.