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TIL Russia built and flew a nuclear powered bomber that killed its own crew by lack of radioactive shielding.

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Ybv TIL the Amazon pours so much water into the Atlantic that freshwater can be found so far offshore that there isn’t any land in sight.
8AjK TIL the “Asexualization Act” of 1909 gave the go-ahead for California to sterilize more than 20,000 men and women against their will
N7d4P TIL two nurses, hired within months of each other to work the same shift on the same floor in the same Florida hospital found out that they were actually long-lost sisters from Korea who had been separated for almost 40 years
YbYA TIL in 1945, Grace Hopper traced a computer problem to a moth between the relays, then taped it up into her log book and wrote, “First actual case of a bug being found.” This popularized the terms “bug” and “debug” and her log book is now stored within the Smithsonian.
o6mE TIL that there is an upside down traffic signal in Syracuse, New York because the Local Irish kids didn’t want British red above Irish green.