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TIL five men agreed to stand directly under an exploding nuclear bomb.. All of them walked away unscathed.

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VPNk TIL Häagen-Dazs is not a European company, it was invented by two brothers in New York and the name itself is completely made up
RAww TIL that there is a scuba club in Muff, England called the Muff Diving Club.
nW8xo TIL that the highly rated Simpsons Treehouse of Horror V segment The Shinning, was the work of showrunner David Mirkin. Matt Groening himself had never watched The Shining and didn’t understand most of the references.
e0yyg TIL of Adam Clayton, a guy in his 20's who fought for right to die legislation bill C14 in Canada, while dealing with incurable chronic nerve pain. He committed suicide in late 2016.
0n1y TIL of the Russian “Firehose of Propaganda” Model: Overwhelm your enemy with lies from multiple sources, so people will see the lies first, thus winning the first impression. Multiple sources reinforce the same lies, all before real journalists can even find the facts.