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TIL the Nuclear Gandhi bug from Civilization actually never existed

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NgK1 TIL that on many major airlines, a pilot must eat a different in-flight meal to his co-pilot to minimise the risk of food-related illnesses compromising the flight.
EgxY7 TIL: National Park Services has their own Investigative Services Branch. The FBI of of the NSB, solving decades old Cold Cases in the worst of conditions.
WNO4 TIL that Senegalese Peacekeeper, Captain Mbaye Diagne, disobeyed the UN mandate and personally saved “as many as 600” Rwandans during the genocide. He was killed by a mortar shell a month before the genocide ended.
v16d4 TIL a couple invited Queen Elizabeth to their wedding as a joke and she actually showed up
d8Nk7 TIL: When Satruday Night Live alum Dana Carvey was hospitalized for an angioplasty in 1998, legendary crooner Frank Sinatra died in the room next to his.