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TIL Manhattan's 4 last remaining phone booths are free of charge

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p8YQN TIL about Operation Looking Glass - a 24-hour a day, continuously airborne command center capable of directing all of the United States' nuclear assets as backup, should SAC's ground facilities be destroyed. Taking turns, the airplanes stayed continuously staffed for 29 years.
NXwJ6 TIL the photo of Salvador Dalí jumping and painting while water and live cats fly through the air took 5 hours and 26 tries because they couldn't get the timing right. The "floating" objects hung from wires or were held up off-camera. Dalí’s canvas frame was empty in the pic; he painted it in later.
gxm9 TIL Norway’s rainy day fund is approaching $1 trillion, or about $700,000 for a family of 4, thanks to prudent investment of oil revenue, directed by an “ethical council”.
KpMB TIL Genghis Khan killed so many people he cleaned about 700 million tons of Carbon from the atmosphere. It may be the first case of man made global cooling.
69NPQ TIL that Smokey The Bear had received so many gifts of honey and letters that he had to have his own Zip Code.