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TIL: A Russian man saved the world by ignoring the commands of a missile detection system. His gut instincts were correct. it was a false alarm. There were no nukes coming from the United States. It was some clouds that fooled the sensors.

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E175p TIL of couple Vladimir & Lidiya Guryev of Montclair New Jersey. They are Russian spies in pretense of being locals in the name of Richard & Cynthia Murphy. They arrived in US in mid 1990s and arrested by FBI in 2010.
wZv8 TIL that the first Courage The Cowardly Dog short was nominated for an Oscar. It was called The Chicken From Outer Space.
yRDp TIL a rigorous experiment found that non-celiac gluten sensitivity probably doesn’t exist and instead patients were experiencing a ‘nocebo’ effect.
kJ0r1 TIL there has been only one spacewalk with more than two people, which was on the STS-49 space shuttle mission. Astronauts Pierre Thuot, Rick Hieb, and Thomas Akers performed an unscheduled spacewalk in order to capture a faulty satellite after several previous two-man attempts had failed.
89j8 TIL that in 2009 archaeologists discovered elephants, baboons, wildcats and other animals buried in the ancient city of Hierakonpolis, Egypt. It was possibly the world’s first zoo-like environment, dating back to 3500 B.C.