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indica
03/19/22 4:14:23 AM
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The healthiest place in the world is in Panama:

A small valley near Volcn in Panama has garnered the distinction of being the world's healthiest place to live, according to a 2018 report by International Living. Called Shangri-La Valley, the area is home to beautiful scenery, a low cost of living, and a significantly longer life expectancy than the surrounding areas. All in all, the world's healthiest areas have some common factors, according to the ranking: a warm climate, an active social scene, healthy food, and a slower pace of life that makes for less daily stress.


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indica
03/19/22 1:01:03 PM
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A dozen bodies were once found in Benjamin Franklin's basement:

Were you aware of the fact that multiple skeletons were found in the basement of Benjamin Franklin's London home? The bones were discovered during a 1998 renovation of the house and were identified as being from nearly a dozen people, including six children. "The most plausible explanation is not mass murder, but an anatomy school run by Franklin's young friend and protege, William Hewson," wrote The Guardian.That's not to say there wasn't any funny business going on. "The resurrection men could deliver bodies stolen from graveyards to the Thames wharf at the bottom of the street, while there was a weekly public execution at the gallows on the other side of the garden wall," the publication reported.


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indica
03/20/22 3:08:21 AM
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Abraham Lincoln's bodyguard left his post at Ford's Theatre to go for a drink:

You already know that Abraham Lincoln was shot and killed by John Wilkes Booth while watching a performance at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., on April 14, 1865. But what you might not have been aware of is that the president had a bodyguard named John Frederick Parker with him on that fateful night, according to Smithsonian Magazine. Unfortunately, Parker was a police officer with a less-than-stellar reputation. After arriving three hours late for his shift, the officer left his post protecting the president to get a drink at the Star Saloon next door to the theatre. It was during this time that Booth entered the box seats where Lincoln was sitting and shot the president.


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Suikoden420
03/20/22 4:10:41 AM
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At any given moment there is more electrical activity in a potato than in Biden's brain.

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BoyOfBattle
03/20/22 6:29:29 AM
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aibohphobia = fear of palindromes

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indica
03/20/22 9:23:00 AM
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Dolphins have been trained to be used in wars:

Dolphins are known widely as adorable, intelligent animals. What is not as widely known is that these crafty creatures were used by the U.S. and Soviet Union during the Vietnam War and the Cold War. Both countries studied the creatures for their sonar capabilities, but also trained them to detect mines, bring equipment to divers, find lost equipment, and guard submarines amongst other nifty tricks.


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indica
03/20/22 9:02:26 PM
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Playing the accordion was once required for teachers in North Korea:

The most popular instrument in North Korea is the accordion, so much so that all teachers used to be required to play to get their teaching certifications. Because the accordion is portable in a way that, say, a grand piano isn't, it was thought of as the "people's instrument" that could be taken outside and played for laborers in the fields.

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Heartomaton
03/21/22 3:13:50 PM
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https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/2/7/AAcI8BAADDS3.jpg

I looked it up. It's legit. Neat but kinda gross.

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indica
03/21/22 11:02:26 PM
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Children's medicine once contained morphine:

If you were a baby in the middle of the 1800s and you cried while teething, your parents might have given you Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. This "medicine" claimed that "it soothes the child, it softens the gums, [and] allays all pain." It may have done plenty of soothing, but it was also extremely dangerousthis concoction, like many patent medicines of the time, contained morphine.

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indica
03/22/22 7:51:07 PM
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Water makes different pouring sounds depending on its temperature:

If you listen very closely, hot water and cold water sound slightly different when being poured. The heat changes the thickness, or viscosity, of the water, which changes the pitch of the sound it makes when it's poured. What we feel as heat comes from the molecules of the water moving faster. Cold water is thicker and therefore makes a slightly higher-pitched sound.


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faizan_faizan
03/22/22 8:00:57 PM
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About a 100 billion humans have lived and died on earth before us.

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indica
03/23/22 12:15:56 PM
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Most laughter isn't because things are funny:

Every culture in the world laughs, but surprisingly, most of our laughter isn't necessarily a response to humor. Less than 20 percent of laughter comes after jokes, according to neuroscientist Robert Provine; the rest is a reaction to regular statements and questions like, "How have you been?" The ensuing laughter, however brief, helps form social bonds since people who laugh together grow closer.

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indica
03/24/22 7:56:23 PM
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17th Century Europeans were cannibals:

In 16th and 17th century Europe, cannibalism was actually a fairly common practice, and it was all for medical purposes. The practice seems to have started because Egyptian mummies were thought to have magical curative propertiesso they were ground up and put in many remedies.
As the idea evolved, human bone, blood, and fat were all used in medical concoctions. Got a headache? Crush a skull and make it into tea! While medical cannibalism has fallen out of favor, modern medicine still sometimes uses one human body to heal another in the form of blood donations, organ transplants, and skin grafts.


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indica
03/25/22 6:34:32 AM
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YugiNoob posted... Random fun fact: Caterpillars walk on top of each other in what's called a rolling swarm, which allows them to move faster than any of them could individually lol

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/2/3/3/AAPV5JAADEGh.jpg



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indica
03/26/22 4:04:24 AM
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Dogs actually understand you:

Some owners of disobedient dogs may have trouble believing this, but dogs can learn to recognize a vocabulary of about 165 words. Unsurprisingly, dogs respond best to short words, as well as words with hard consonants like "t" or "r," which may explain why they can hear "treat" from three rooms away. If you want to try to expand your dog's vocabulary, be consistentfor example, always call a meal "dinner" instead of breakfast, lunch, or supper. And don't believe the myth: Old dogs can learn words just as well as young dogs

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indica
03/27/22 3:43:53 AM
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Pro baseball once had women players:

While there are currently no female players in Major League Baseball, there have been plenty of women in professional men's leagues. The first was Lizzy Arlington, who pitched during the ninth inning for the Reading Coal Heavers in 1898 and won her team the game. A little over 30 years later, an African-American woman, Jackie Mitchell, pitched against the Yankees during an exhibition game, striking out both Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. What's more impressive: Mitchell was 17 years old at the time.


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marthsheretoo
03/27/22 5:05:53 AM
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indica posted...
Dogs actually understand you:

Some owners of disobedient dogs may have trouble believing this, but dogs can learn to recognize a vocabulary of about 165 words. Unsurprisingly, dogs respond best to short words, as well as words with hard consonants like "t" or "r," which may explain why they can hear "treat" from three rooms away. If you want to try to expand your dog's vocabulary, be consistentfor example, always call a meal "dinner" instead of breakfast, lunch, or supper. And don't believe the myth: Old dogs can learn words just as well as young dogs

One time my wife heard a noise outside our window at night. Dog got agitated. My wife got up to look and saw a raccoon, waved at it, and said "hi cutie!"

A fucking YEAR later, we were cuddling the dog at night. He went and jumped into some blankets and then popped his head out and my wife said "hi cutie!" to him.

Total personality change. He started growling and running around the house. Took some thinking before we figured out what must have happened.


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YugiNoob
03/27/22 5:18:45 AM
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I was just about to post the caterpillar thing here :3

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indica
03/27/22 5:22:36 AM
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YugiNoob posted...
I was just about to post the caterpillar thing here :3
I felt it belonged here...

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YugiNoob
03/28/22 4:10:15 AM
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Amphetamine is short for Alpha-methylphenethylamine :3

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indica
03/29/22 1:52:01 AM
#22:


Riding a roller coaster could help you pass a kidney stone:

After multiple people reported they had passed a kidney stone while riding Walt Disney World's Big Thunder Mountain Railroad ride, a research team from Michigan State University decided to investigate the phenomena in 2016. They conducted tests with a model kidney and found that there was a 64 percent kidney stone pass rate for those seated in the rear of the Thunder Mountain ride. That number was just 16 percent for those seated in the front.

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indica
03/30/22 6:38:15 PM
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The famed "Typhoid Mary" infected more than 50 people by cooking for them:

"Typhoid Mary" was a real historical person who became notorious in the early 1900s. She was an Irish woman named Mary Mallon who immigrated to the United States in the 1880s. Though she had no symptoms of typhoid fever, she carried the bacteria in her blood and could pass it on to other people. Because no doctor could convince her that this was true and she didn't feel sick, she insisted on working as a cook. During her career, she infected at least 51 people, three of whom died, before she was isolated in enforced quarantine for the last decades of her life.


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KayfabeTactics
03/30/22 6:51:27 PM
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There was only 66 years been flying the first plane and landing on the moon

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UnholyMudcrab
03/30/22 7:03:41 PM
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In 1975, the only bridge leading into the town of Vulcan, West Virginia collapsed. The state and federal governments refused the mayor's requests to build another bridge for two years until, in 1977, he finally went for broke and wrote a letter to Leonid Brezhnev asking the Soviet Union to build a bridge for the town. A Soviet journalist visited the town to investigate the bridge, and within hours of this visit, the West Virginia legislature had voted to provide $1.3 million to build a new bridge.

Also, for some reason, the Wikipedia article for Vulcan has a 5352 x 1009 pixel panorama of a train.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulcan%2C_West_Virginia

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indica
04/01/22 5:27:29 AM
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Bangladesh has more people than Russia:

Russia may span 9 time zones and cover more surface area than Pluto as the world's largest country, but tiny Bangladesh (slightly bigger than the size of New York state) has a population of over 161 million people as of 2018. Russia has around 144 million, as of 2018.


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indica
04/01/22 9:05:49 PM
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There are more synapses (nerve connections) in your brain than there are stars in our galaxy:

Astronomers estimate that there are more than 200 billion stars present in the Milky Way Galaxy. That's a lot of stars. But neuroscientists estimate the number of synaptic connections in the average 3-year-old is close to 1 quadrillion. After that, a refining process occurs, leaving the average adult with about half that many, or roughly 500 trillion synapses.

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KayfabeTactics
04/02/22 12:48:31 PM
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indica posted...
There are more synapses (nerve connections) in your brain than there are stars in our galaxy:

Astronomers estimate that there are more than 200 billion stars present in the Milky Way Galaxy. That's a lot of stars. But neuroscientists estimate the number of synaptic connections in the average 3-year-old is close to 1 quadrillion. After that, a refining process occurs, leaving the average adult with about half that many, or roughly 500 trillion synapses.


Doesnt it look like a universe as well?

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TG_Wolf
04/02/22 1:14:53 PM
#29:


Phallo-photo-portafilia:

The sexual attraction/urge to insert your penis into a light or electric socket.

That's a thing you know now.

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AngelicRadiance
04/02/22 1:18:47 PM
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The # which is commonly known as a hashtag or pound sign is actually known as an octothorpe.

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indica
04/02/22 8:08:26 PM
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Seals have nails:
https://www.neaq.org/blog/even-seals-need-manicures
"In fur seals, their toenails are exposed about halfway down their hind flippers. That is where their toe bones end. Their flippers continue past the nail with long flexible cartilage. The toes, nails, and extensive cartilage is necessary for reaching all the fur on their backs for grooming.
We dont have to clip the fur seals nails because they never get too long. Thats most likely from them grooming so often. Fur seals must groom their fur for hours each day in order to maintain their coats. They are, in fact, the second furriest animals on the planet (behind sea otters) and they rely on those dense coats to keep them warm."


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UnholyMudcrab
04/03/22 5:27:35 AM
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The name Cedric was invented by Sir Walter Scott in 1819, when he accidentally misspelled the Anglo-Saxon name Cerdic while writing Ivanhoe.

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Naysaspace
04/03/22 5:37:46 AM
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Ginger beef, despite being a staple of americanized chinese food, was actually invented in Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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indica
04/03/22 9:00:23 PM
#34:


Cleopatra lived closer in time to the building of the first Pizza Hut than to the building of the pyramids:

Construction on the pyramids of Giza took place roughly from 2550 BC to 2490 BC, while Cleopatra, the last active Pharaoh of Ancient Egypt, was born in 69 BC and died in 30 BC.
The first Pizza Hut opened in Wichita, Kansas, on June 15, 1958. That means that the chain's opening is about 500 years closer to Cleopatra's lifetime than the construction of the Giza pyramids.


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indica
04/03/22 9:01:02 PM
#35:


And on that note The woolly mammoth still roamed the earth while the pyramids were being built:

The last woolly mammoths died as late as 1650 BC on Russia's Wrangle Island (from what scientists can tell, anyway most populations of woolly mammoths disappeared long ago during the late Pleistocene and early Holocene periods, but some still survived on islands in Alaska and Russia).
By this time, the Egyptian Empire was already extremely advanced and building pyramids. In fact, the Great Pyramid of Giza had existed for 1,000 years by the time the last woolly mammoth died.


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KayfabeTactics
04/04/22 6:24:15 AM
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Yeah, thats amazing

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Alteres
04/04/22 6:49:49 AM
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Well, once we wiped out the giants the mammoths werent going to last long.

At least we dont have to paint cows anymore.

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indica
04/04/22 11:55:53 PM
#38:


North Korea and Finland are technically separated by only one country:

Although Finland and North Korea are 4,272 miles (6,682 km) apart, Russia has a border with both countries. Russia's border with Finland in Northern Europe is approximately 833 miles (1,341 km) long, while its border with North Korea stretches for about 10.5 miles (16.9 km) along the Tumen River.

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Shotgunnova
04/04/22 11:58:43 PM
#39:


A volcano erupted in 1808 and no one knows quite where it took place.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1808_mystery_eruption

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Eat More Beef
04/05/22 12:11:20 AM
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indica posted...
Most laughter isn't because things are funny:

Every culture in the world laughs, but surprisingly, most of our laughter isn't necessarily a response to humor. Less than 20 percent of laughter comes after jokes, according to neuroscientist Robert Provine; the rest is a reaction to regular statements and questions like, "How have you been?" The ensuing laughter, however brief, helps form social bonds since people who laugh together grow closer.

I always found that creepy when people chuckle to a "how're you" type question.

Fact: in 2010 the Oakland Raiders went 6-0 in their division and missed the playoffs.

Fact #2: In 2010, The San Diego Chargers had the #1 offense and the #1 defense in the nfl and missed the playoffs.

Fact #3: from 2008 until 2012, which ever nfl team beat the Philly Eagles at the Eagles home opener in week 2, went on to win the superbowl.

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YugiNoob
04/05/22 1:38:53 AM
#41:


Alaska is the northernmost, westernmost, and easternmost state in America :3

...Hawaii is the southernmost. Not interesting; just filling out the last part :<

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DD Divine
04/05/22 1:50:08 AM
#42:


big bird was supposed to be on the space shuttle challenger to promote space to kids but due to difficulties of pre filming a segment inside the space shuttle with the suite it was scrapped.

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indica
04/05/22 8:09:25 PM
#43:


Heroin was once used to treat children's coughs:

Bayer, the German pharmaceutical company that produces aspirin, commercialized heroin in the 1890s as a cough, cold, and pain remedy. What's really shocking, however, is that Bayer marketed heroin for use in children as late as 1912, years after reports began to surface that it could be a dangerous drug. In 1914, heroin was restricted to prescription-only use in the U.S. and eventually banned by the FDA altogether in 1924.


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DD Divine
04/06/22 12:55:37 AM
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YugiNoob posted...
Alaska is the northernmost, westernmost, and easternmost state in America :3

...Hawaii is the southernmost. Not interesting; just filling out the last part :<

yep always found that interesting how its so far west its east


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KayfabeTactics
04/06/22 1:02:11 AM
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Pluto's first birthday [based on discovery] will be March 23, 2178

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indica
04/08/22 3:42:40 AM
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There is more time separating Stegosaurus and Tyrannosaurus Rex than Tyrannosaurus Rex and us:

Contrary to what some cartoons, movies, and books would have us believe, not all dinosaurs lived together. In fact, they were vastly separated by time and geography.
The "age of dinosaurs," or Mesozoic Era, had three distinct time periods (the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous Periods). The Jurassic-period dinosaur Stegosaurus already had been extinct for approximately 80-90 million years before the appearance of the Cretaceous dinosaur Tyrannosaurus, making the Tyrannosaurus much closer in time to us (we're separated by about 65.5 million years).
And by "us" that doesn't mean the human race, but you, reading this article right now at your computer. Dinosaurs were around for a long time.

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YugiNoob
04/08/22 5:43:14 AM
#47:


A blind cave salamander called an olm stayed still for over 7 years lol. They can also apparently go up to 10 years without food

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Stagmar
04/08/22 1:36:55 PM
#48:


In one breath a seal can exchange 90% of the air in its lungs. In comparison, humans can only exchange about 20% of air per breath.

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LostForest
04/08/22 1:48:03 PM
#49:


In 1961, an American jet carrying atomic bombs crashed and came thiiiiis close to accidentally nuking a town in North Carolina.

On January 23rd 1961, a Boeing B-52 jet carrying two nuclear bombs, failed and broke apart in mid-air over Goldsboro, North Carolina dropping the bombs in the process. The pilot in command, Walter Scott Tulloch, ordered the crew to eject at 9,000 ft (2,700 m). Five crewmen successfully ejected or bailed out of the aircraft and landed safely; another ejected, but did not survive the landing, and two died in the crash.
Information declassified in 2013 showed that one of the bombs came close to detonating, with three out of the four required triggering mechanisms having been activated.



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indica
04/08/22 8:38:52 PM
#50:


Chinese police use geese squads:

You've heard of police dogs, but police geese? As of 2013, 12 police stations in a rural area of China have begun to use geese as sentries. They are alert animals and, as you probably know, can create a lot of noise and commotion, which creative Chinese law enforcement officers are taking advantage of. While this trend has yet to spread throughout China, Dongwan police claim that the geese have already stopped at least one theft.


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