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TIL Richard Nixon ordered a nuclear attack on North Korea while drunk

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vPJgR TIL: In 1983, Vivian Blaine became the first celebrity to record public service announcements for AIDS-related causes. She was also heavily involved in supporting the then-fledgling APLA (AIDS Project Los Angeles). She recorded her cabaret act for AEI Records and donated its royalties to the APLA.
1LgV TIL forgotten smallpox vials were found in a cardboard box in Maryland in 2014, over 30 years after its eradication
LkMXp TIL of Inmate 4859, Witold Pilecki, a Polish intelligence officer that voluntarily entered Auschwitz to gather intel. He escaped and reported the atrocities occurring at Auschwitz. His report was dismissed under the belief that he was exaggerating what was occurring at Auschwitz.
yV9Wv TIL Georges Lemaître, a Catholic priest and scientist who first proposed the Big Bang Theory, was opposed to mixing religion and science. In 1951, he was reportedly horrified when the Pope intervened and tried to draw parallel of the Big Bang with the doctrine of creatio ex nihilo
oebA TIL In 1988, a man with severe OCD shot himself in the head in an attempt to commit suicide. Instead of killing him, the bullet destroyed the part of his brain that was responsible for his OCD, and he went on to become a straight-A college student a few years later.