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TIL the government tested Aids drugs on foster children
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TIL Nat sec advisor Brzezinski was woken at 3am by a call telling him Russia launched 250 ICBMs at the U. S. Minutes later, he received another call: The early-warning system actually showed 2,000 inbound missiles. As he began to phone the president, he received a third call: It was a false alarm.
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TIL During the initial assault on Stalingrad, German forces were shocked to find they were fighting mostly women from an anti-aircraft regiment, who used their anti-aircraft guns to destroy German Panzers.
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TIL giant tarantulas keep tiny frogs as pets. The frog eats insects that prey on the tarantula’s eggs and in return the arachnid protects the frog from predators.
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TIL that till 2016 Michael Caine's legal name was Maurice Micklewhite. He legally changed it to Michael Caine because of the rise in airport security checks. Airport security guards know him as Michael Caine but his passport had a different name which made him wait hours.
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TIL A Fistful of Dollars by Sergio Leone was identified as an unofficial remake of Akira Kurosawa’s Yojimbo, and he received 15% of the western’s revenue, after Kurosawa wrote to Leone about it.