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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/AdamFilandr on 2024-11-04 22:41:23+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that in 1958, the U.S. government accidentally dropped a nuclear bomb on a family’s backyard in Mars Bluff, South Carolina. The bomb’s nuclear core was not installed, so it didn’t cause a nuclear explosion, but the conventional explosives detonated, leaving a massive crater and damaging the home