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TIL in 1963, a group of Catholic schoolchildren visiting the JFK eternal flame sprinkled it with holy water, accidentally extinguishing it

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8aBaL TIL that during the Cuban Missile Crisis a false alarm of nuclear war almost made a Soviet nuclear submarine near the U.S launch it's nukes. However the order for a launch needed 3 approvals and Arkhipov refused. So this guy is the only reason why all of us are still alive today
kOpm5 TIL about Collingwood Ingram, a British man who became an expert on cherry trees and saved the great white cherry from extinction in Japan.
pY9KN TIL John C Woods, the executioner for the Nuremberg trials intentionally botched several of the executions to make them suffer. Also lied about being a hangman in Texas and Oklahoma to get the job.
bwx0 TIL the “t” in “often” became silent during the 16th and 17th centuries to simplify the word’s articulation, but as literacy rose in the 1800s, “t” began to reenter speech as more people became aware of spelling.
xVBj5 TIL: Because of different TV formats, an American movie, on a British or Australian DVD plays 4% faster than on an American DVD