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TIL America is still declared a “State of Emergency”

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Jdmv TIL a 17 year-old online serial scammer was killed when one of his victims mailed him a pipe bomb.
yQAl TIL Cats’ kidneys are so efficient that cats can survive on a diet consisting only of meat, with no additional water, and can even rehydrate by drinking seawater.
l7517 TIL France detonated its 1st atomic bomb, the Blue Jerboa, on Feb. 13, 1960 in Saharan Algeria. This was the 1st of 17 nuclear weapons detonations that occurred in the area between 1960 & 1966. The Blue Jerboa was 3 times more powerful than the atomic bomb the US dropped on Nagasaki, Japan in 1945.
vPV7r TIL Paul Reubens' final public performance as Pee Wee Herman was for a one time stint as a radio DJ on KCRW on November 26, 2021 and the show was called "the Pee-wee Herman Radio Hour."
wVV8 TIL Apple used ‘Carl Sagan’ as a codename for a computer in the 1990s. Carl Sagan sent Apple a cease-and-desist letter, and Apple changed the name to 'Butt-Head Astronomer’. Carl Sagan sued for libel and lost, and Apple changed the name to 'Lawyers are Wimps’.