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TIL Law professor Roger Fisher suggested that nuclear launch codes be implanted in a volunteer’s heart. The president would be required to personally take the life of an innocent person before taking the lives of hundreds of millions.

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NXrnJ TIL A Man walked the 19,000-mile coastline of the UK
0db7N TIL of a giant centipede that hangs from cave ceilings and catches and eats bats
NXXMP TIL that during the US invasion of Grenada in 1983 soldiers had to rely on tourist maps with grid lines hand-drawn on them, and use copies of The Economist magazine for intelligence as the invasion was ordered on such short notice.
1apaV TIL that despite the NFL making more than $9 billion annually, projected to make more than $25 billion a year by 2027, pays its CEO more than $30 million a year, 68% of NFL stadium construction costs since 1923 coming from taxpayer money.
epE5L TIL that some Paralympic fencers have FUCKING SWORDS FOR ARMS. How cool is that?!