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TIL, There are “Letters of last resort” on-board British nuclear submarines,they contain orders on what action to take in the event of an enemy nuclear strike that has destroyed the British State and killed the Prime Minister.

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0dyxM TIL in 1997 an Air Force pilot mysteriously crashed his A-10 Warthog in Colorado. The four 500 lb bombs his plane was carrying have never been found.
gr1G8 TIL of the Baltic Sea Anomaly which is an unexplained item found within the Baltic Sea by divers in 2011 and it remains a mystery.
W7VNo TIL Fifteen minutes of shivering from cold temperatures can be the metabolic equivalent of 1 hour of exercise.
Ook46 TIL the frontman to Powerman 5000 is the brother of Rob Zombie and was also on the original 90210.
GYn45 TIL of Chen Si, a Chinese man who has spent every weekend since 2003 voluntarily patrolling the world's most popular suicide site. As a result, he has prevented over 300 people from jumping over the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge.