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TIL The TSA does not perform background checks on employees

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ekEn TIL that Joseph Stalin, though depicted “as physically massive and majestic,” was actually only “5 feet 4 inches (1.63 m)”. He was shorter than Napoleon and President Truman referred to him as “a little squirt” after first meeting the dictator.
o8lY TIL there have been 13 instances where nuclear weapons were nearly launched due to accidents and false alarms.
VB4Mk TIL that in 2000, scientists revived a bacteria believed to be 250 million years old found buried 1,850 feet underground in New Mexico
bMDj TIL the paradoxical frog, pseudis paradoxa, is the only known animal that has babies larger than the parent.
6E9BY TIL White Tailed Sea Eagles went extinct in Scotland in 1916 due to hunting and egg collecting. In 1975 a breeding pair from Norway were re-introduced and in 2006 the 200th Sea Eagle egg hatched on the Isle of Skye.