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Today I Learned 7 Planets you Probably didn't know about

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Bry1K 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.
X0rbP TIL that the original tight-fitting parachute pants (not to be confused with Hammer pants) were characterized by the use of ripstop nylon, were mostly worn by teenage boys, and became a 1980s fad due to the increased popularity of breakdancing.
Z85kp TIL Goochland (pop. 861), the home of Stoolbend's arch-rival high school on The Cleveland Show, is a real place in Virginia. Stoolbend is a fictional place and the name comes from a river bend where poop was found floating on a fishing trip.
VMdmD TIL that, while the Great White Shark was long thought of as the ocean’s apex predator, the Killer Whale has since been found to be a predator of the shark
KYrMG TIL that the body of a 74-year-old woman who died of Alzheimer's in 2013 and whose son donated her body to Alzheimer's research was callously blown up by the U.S. Army for a "roadside bomb damage" experiment, despite her son's explicit wishes to exclude non-medical experiments and military use.