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TIL Reagan and Gorbachev Agreed to Pause the Cold War in Case of an Alien Invasion.

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vPBJr TIL that from 1969 to 1971, shortly after it's closing, Alcatraz Island was taken over and occupied by Indigenous Indians to protest the use of their land for the prison
oBmYY TIL that Charlie Chaplin once entered a Charlie Chaplin lookalike contest, and lost.
BOGr TIL you can put crayons in a hot glue gun
LJEv TIL Peter Jackson wrote a script for Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare. In his version, Freddy had become so weak in the dream world that teenagers would take sleeping pills to go into the Dream World and mess with him.
0bGR TIL The Murchison meteorite that crashed in Australia contains uracil and xanthine (guanine derivative) nucleobases (DNA components) that were proven to be of non-Earth origin/contamination due to the amount of carbon-13.