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TIL scientists calculated that a week-long nuclear war involving about 100 nuclear weapons would kill 27 million people directly and 255 million people from starvation, while a week-long war involving 4,400 nuclear weapons would kill 360 million people directly and 5 billion people from starvation.

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7BWX TIL that DeForest Kelley disliked repeating Dr. McCoy’s catchphrase “He’s dead, Jim”, which appears 20 times in the original Star Trek series. It became so famous, however, that he joked that the line would appear on his tombstone. It did appear in the first sentence of Kelley’s obituary.
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bZg7 TIL that tobacco companies pay for most, if not all, of the anti-tobacco commercials you see.