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TIL about the Soviet 'Dead Hand' system — an automated doomsday mechanism designed to launch nuclear retaliation strikes without human intervention after detecting incoming missiles

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NXBme TIL of Danny Casolaro, a researcher who was found dead in a hotel bathtub shortly before he was set to expose that Reagan committed treason by conspiring with the Iranian government to keep the hostages until his inauguration
b6MXp TIL Mark Levin and Jennifer Flackett, co-creators of the Netfix animated series Big Mouth, wrote the story and screenplay for the 1998 childrens movie Madeline.
D6av TIL that we get the word “orange” from the fruit, not vice versa, and that the colour was called “yellow-red” before we discovered the fruit
69Kw8 TIL that the childhood game Jackpot, in which a ball is thrown into the air for multiple people to catch, has an antecedent (Ourania) that dates back to at least the 2nd Century AD in Greece
VMN8k TIL Detention Deputies located $1,090.00 in U.S. currency hidden in the rectum of a 26-year-old man after they apparently smelled marijuana in his car.