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TIL that during the Cuban Missile Crisis a false alarm of nuclear war almost made a Soviet nuclear submarine near the U.S launch it's nukes. However the order for a launch needed 3 approvals and Arkhipov refused. So this guy is the only reason why all of us are still alive today

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wLp86 TIL that Hamburg has the biggest rural cemetery in the world and that it is nearly twice the size of Monaco at 400 hectares.
wZJE TIL that Robin Williams and Robert DeNiro both stopped by(separately) John Belushi’s Hotel Room to do coke hours before he died.
8aKjG TIL: During the 2014 Sochii Olympics in Russia, Russian deputy prime minister Dmitry Kozak—responding to complaints about facilities—claimed the problems were due to sabotage and their surveillance video of people's behavior in hotel showers proved it.
j6eZN TIL that there was human species called Homo Floresiensis, that were very small - only 1.1 m (3 f 7in) in heights
dKL8 TIL a man was ordered to pay child support after his girlfriend performed oral sex, saved his semen, and inseminated herself.