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TIL that the town of Alvira, PA was purchased by the DOD during WW2 & all its residents displaced. They built about 150 bunkers to housed munitions. Today you can find remaining bunkers in State Game Lands 252. (Wear blaze orange!)

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EgZBV TIL Joey Ramone was in remission from lymphoma, but his lifelong OCD led him to go back to his chiropractor to see if he closed the door right. He slipped on ice and broke his hip, forcing him out of chemo to recover, which ultimately lead to the lymphoma reemerging and ultimately killing him.
l4LN TIL When the creation of the ‘Cheers’ spinoff, 'Frasier’ was announced, Cheers cast-member Kirstie Alley called producer David Lee to tell him she wouldn’t make any appearances on the show, because she was a Scientologist and didn’t believe in psychiatry. He replied, “I don’t recall asking.”
pYNvb TIL that the youngest drill sergeant in the history of the United States Marine Corps was Donald Dunagan, the voice of Bambi.
RkO7 TIL that there is a hidden spy room at an AT&T building in downtown San Francisco that splits all incoming communications traffic, copying this information to the NSA. This room has been operational since at least 2003 and has been publicly known to exist since 2006.
40v6 TIL that after WWII, a group of Jewish “Avengers” formulated a Holocaust revenge plan to kill 6 million Germans by poisoning the water supply of many German cities. However, the plan was foiled by British police while the poison was in transit.