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TIL, First Lady Barbara Bush Wrote an apology letter to Marge Simpson after criticizing the show.

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M715a TIL that despite its cultural presence as the doomsday scenario, current models and estimates believe that a nuclear winter is not a realistic outcome following a nuclear war. One analysis said so many successive things would need to go wrong it was akin to a coin landing on heads 40 times straight
8aaWP Short Answer: It Prevents Some Injuries But Causes Others
VEvB TIL that in 1981 President Reagan claimed in complete seriousness that “trees cause more pollution than automobiles do.”
nEb TIL that Greenland is possibly made up of 3 islands concealed by the ice sheet
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