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TIL that for twenty years, the US nuclear launch code was ‘00000000’

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9Y7Xm TIL: Medically managed hypothermia has been popular and in use in medicine since the 1930s-1940s when research was conducted demonstrating the absence of irreversible neurologic change in humans cooled to as low as 26*C over a 24-hour period after sustaining traumatic brain injuries.
B4Wy TIL Uber stated the median driver in New York City was making $90,000 a year when in reality they were actually making around $38,000.
BPlx TIL Jimmy Carter placed his peanut farm into a blind trust to avoid potential conflict of interest while President.
DQnLj TIL In 2022, the President of South Sudan was filmed wetting himself in public. Some journalists who reported this ended up disappearing or being found dead.
dDJYB TIL Jimi Hendrix was not encouraged in his musical talents as a child. He got his first guitar at the age of fifteen, and his first electric guitar a year later.