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TIL Tsunamis also happen in the Mediterranean.

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0wAnj TIL in 1981 a man named Roger Fischer had an idea for a volunteer to have ICBM launch codes put in their chest cavity. In the event of an emergency, the volunteer would carry a knife to be killed with. It was meant to force the personal killing of one man to start the impersonal killing of millions.
XEN0X TIL That the Colonial Continental Army was at most 48,000 men at any given time during the Revolutionary War
W7GmN TIL Louis Eppolito, who played Fat Andy in ‘Goodfellas’ and a detective in ‘Lost Highway’ among other roles, was an NYPD detective who led a double life as an associate of the Five Families
j6R0R TIL Canadian 1-dollar and 2-dollar coins are called loonies and toonies.
5V1xQ TIL that Quasar 3C 273 is so bright that if it were only 33 light years away, it would outshine the Sun in Earth's sky. 3C 273 is 4 trillion times brighter and 886 million times more massive than the Sun.