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TIL Ronald Reagan signed Proclamation 5157 declaring March 6, 1984, as Frozen Food Day. President Reagan called upon the American people "to observe such day with appropriate ceremonies and activities.”

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7kGM TIL England built an underground city in the 1950s to house 4,000 key government employees in case of a nuclear strike, complete with 60 miles of roadways, an underground lake to provide fresh water and a railway to transport the Royal Family. It was not revealed to the public until 2004.
Rbe1 TIL a Hungarian psychologist wrote a book on how to raise a genius. He proposed his ideas to a teacher. They married and raised three chess grandmasters, two of them became record-breakers and one even became the first female to beat the top ranked male (Gary Kasporov).
Oo18X TIL Horses can't throw up. If they need to throw up, they'll die.
rR4Y4 TIL we tried fracking with nukes in the 60s, and only stopped because the gas was too radioactive to use
Zpx7D TIL that a real estate agent in NYC used to buy the bread of all of the Orthodox Jews in NYC during Passover and then sell it back to them at cost so they didn't break Rabinical law.