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TIL the MiG-15's NATO reporting name is Fagot

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W7QK9 TIL: Before Vanna White, came Susan Stafford. Stafford was the first co-host of "Wheel of Fortune". After leaving the show to pursue philanthropy, Stafford said "For seven years, I stood there and turned letters. I had to ask myself if that was any way for a grown woman to live her life."
5aKP TIL that in one mathematical model using Bram Stoker and Stephen King’s vampires, within 165 days of the first vampire appearing on earth, 80% percent of humans would be exterminated.
Egrvw TIL After a Japanese balloon bomb knocked out power to the Manhattan Project's Hanford nuclear site in WW2 the plan for stopping the next balloon was to fly up in a plane and throw bricks at it.
5V9EP TIL that exposure to chemicals known as Obesogens can disrupt the body's normal homeostatic controls and it can promote a process called adipogenesis which causes fatty tissue to accumulate in the body.
vEwL TIL In 2006, anti-NATO protests in Ukraine canceled a joint exercise designed to simulate a Russian invasion of Crimea.