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TIL there is a series of towers built with unobstructed lines of sight from Washington, D.C. to ‘Site R,’ a secure bunker in Pennsylvania, built to relay microwave transmissions in the event of nuclear war

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4XrgR TIL Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe (famous for his pet moose and metal nose) was kidnapped when he was two years old by his uncle. Despite Tycho's parents knowing about this, and them being nobles of phenomenal influence, they did nothing about this, and let his uncle keep him.
X1Qr TIL Twenty years ago 29,000 rubber ducks fell overboard and they still float around the seas.
VkRZ TIL Poor women who drank tea were viewed as irresponsible as whisky drinkers in early 19th-century Ireland
LLrZ TIL: Wisconsin has several “Seed Libraries” where people can “check out” seeds to grow and then “return” them after harvest.
6N9J TIL in 1960, a Retired Postal Worker stalked JFK with the intent of assassinating him. On Dec. 11, he was prepared to ram Kennedy with a dynamite-laden 1950 Buick, but changed his mind at the last minute when he decided he didn’t want to hurt Jackie and her children.