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TIL That During sometime during the Late 80's. Incase of Nuclear Attack, The Peacekeeper Rail Garrison was a Rail Garrison System used to Store 50 MGM--118A Peacekeeper International Ballistic Missles into boxcars, It got cancelled and Two remain, 1 In USA. And 1 in Soviet Union (Russia)

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wYg6 TIL that President Andrew Jackson was sent a 1,400lb block of cheese. When two years passed and the cheese was still around, he held an open house party at the White House and 10,000 people helped him eat it. Even after it was gone, the stink of the cheese lingered in the White House for years.
7LOO TIL Ants use “social immunization” – if one is infected with a fungus, they still lick the ant, spreading it throughout the colony. This practice both kills some of the spores, and builds immune resistance.
neAeb TIL One study found that job seekers are more likely to be hired if they wear glasses to their interview. Several studies have shown that people who wear glasses are typically perceived as more intelligent, more competent, and more industrious than those without spectacles
R5bnw TIL that the last legal duel-to-the-death in the USA was fought in 1859, and it resulted in the death of A U.S. senator at the hands of a Supreme Court (of California) justice.
pdwN TIL Liam Neeson’s wife died when his son was 13, six years after he played a recently widowed man with a 13-year-old son in “Love Actually”