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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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kO6k4 TIL In 1950, medical knowledge was estimated to double every 50 years. By 2020, it is expected to double every 73 days.
4k8Ww TIL that the Mental Patients' Union was established by patients at an English psychiatric hospital to advocate for patient's rights and oppose unethical treatments.
gB87 TIL in 2009, Colorado initiated its Family Planning Initiative to provide low-to-no cost birth control to 68 family clinics around the state. Between 2009 and 2013, the state’s teen birth rate dropped by 40%.
rK0e TIL Charlie Chaplin was born 4 days before Hitler and his character, Tramp, has the same mustache as him. This and being named a Jew and placed on a hitlist by Nazis inspired his film, The Great Dictator, where in the last speech he is actually talking to the audience as himself, not a character
4X6KN TIL that green smarties are strawberry flavored.