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TIL: In 1962, a bear caused a false alarm at a US air base and almost caused nuclear war

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85rL TIL that the photographer who took the famous ‘The vulture and the girl’ photograph in 1993 later on committed suicide in 1994, the same year he received a Pulitzer prize for the disturbing image.
YYG7 TIL that the Islamic “Assassins” stuck into Saladin’s tent and left a death threat and piece of cake on his chest as he was sleeping. He then made a peace deal.
eAVJ TIL the Honey Badger uses “suffocating” gases from its reversible anal pouch to sedate bees while raiding a beehive
OZB7 TIL the USSR beat the US at nearly everything in the space race (besides putting humans on the Moon)
lENV TIL Adult California ground squirrels have a protein in their blood that allow them to survive rattlesnake bites. The squirrels also heat up their tail and wave them to let the rattlesnake know they are aware of them since rattlesnakes have infrared vision. They don’t do this with other snakes.