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TIL the atomic bomb that detonated in Hiroshima only had 1.7 percent of it’s material fission and was considered very inefficient.

by whatilearned December 8, 2021, 11:04 am

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TIL of Qian Xuesen, a Chinese rocket scientist and mathematician, who worked on the Manhattan Project during WW2 to help America build the world’s first atomic bomb. During the Cold War, he was accused of being a communist and fled America to China, where he helped China build its first atomic bomb.

by whatilearned December 6, 2021, 7:03 pm

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TIL after Zeppo Marx retired from the Marx Brothers act he went into a life of engineering. He held three patents to his name, all medical related, and also founded a company that specialized in strap and clamp devices. The clamps would later be used to hold the Fat Man atomic bomb.

by whatilearned December 3, 2021, 5:05 pm

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TIL the city of Hiroshima, Japan distributes seeds and saplings of trees which survived the atomic bomb as a symbol of peace and resilience

by whatilearned November 24, 2021, 10:28 pm

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TIL Sweden had a nuclear weapons program in the 50’s and early 60’s. They had the necessary materials and came very close to building a nuclear bomb before the program was shut down due to changing military doctrine, public opposition, and pressure from the United States.

by whatilearned November 21, 2021, 9:35 pm

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tsar bomb (cruppz chat)

by CopyPastaArchive November 21, 2021, 12:00 am

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TIL that a Bronze Age city on the Dead Sea was destroyed by a meteor airburst with a thousand times the power of the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima. It may have inspired the legend of Sodom and Gomorrah.

by whatilearned November 19, 2021, 2:55 pm

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TIL the first submarine attack on a ship occurred in 1864, when the CSS Hunley sank the sloop-of-war USS Housatonic using a spar torpedo, a primitive form of torpedo that was, in essence, a bomb on the end of a stick encased in a motor boat.

by whatilearned November 19, 2021, 4:57 am

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TIL the only air-to-air kill by an F-15E during Desert Storm was done using a 2000lb bomb, not a missile or rocket.

by whatilearned November 9, 2021, 8:45 pm

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I got fired from the bomb squad today :(

by cringeyjokesman November 7, 2021, 6:33 pm

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TIL that an underachieving Princeton student wrote a term paper describing how to make a nuclear bomb. He got an A but his paper was taken away by the FBI.

by whatilearned November 1, 2021, 6:05 pm

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TIL that Caroline Kennedy, JFK’s daughter, almost became the third Kennedy to be assassinated; an IRA bomb blew up a car she would have been in if not for the British MP hosting her being delayed by a phone call from another MP

by whatilearned October 26, 2021, 12:48 am

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