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TIL Russian Navy Officer Vasili Arkhipov was credited with being the single vote that prevented a Soviet Nuclear Strike during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

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WQGo TIL there is something called the “CSI effect”. Because of television crime dramas, jurors have unrealistic expectations of forensic science and investigation techniques
XEgG6 TIL that the name "battery" was first used by Benjamin Franklin in his experiments with Leyden Jars (early electrostatic capacitors) and originally only meant "a group of two or more" borrowing the term from artillery batteries.
VMX6Q TIL Dolph Lundgren arrived at MIT, after earning a Master's in Chemical Engineering, with girlfriend Grace Jones on the back of his motorcycle
1aDgW TIL that there are trees that have bark that peels away to reveal a second layer of colorful bark, making a rainbow like effect
D11VD TIL about The Charlie Sheen Effect which involved record levels of STD testing after Charlie disclosed his HIV status.