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TIL: The Nixon White House considered using nuclear bombs on North Vietnam

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rMWw TIL North Korea had a propaganda YouTube video taken down for using copyrighted Call of Duty footage.
PYkPL TIL that the Guinness world record for the longest album title is held by Chumbawamba, with a 156 word long album usually shortened to "The Boy Bands Have Won". (Full title in comments)
KOGLG TIL that fighter pilots, even old ones, can take a punch. In 1989, a man punched retired astronaut John Glenn on live TV. Glenn, unfazed, immediately assisted in apprehending the assailant.
6EyYX TIL that the northern lights shows us why there is life on Earth.
jEEp TIL that France lost so many workers during its failed attempt to dig the Panama Canal, that for a time their project’s MAIN source of income was selling the corpses (pickled in brine water) to medical schools all over the world as cadavers.