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TIL of Canadian Air Marshal Charles Roy Slemon, who saved the world from possible nuclear annihilation by breaking protocol, when on October 5th 1960, the BMEWS site in Thule, Greenland falsely detected a level 5 ICBM attack due to the rising moon.

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