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TIL the US's primary defense against ICBMs has a success rate of just over 50%

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6N6Y TIL that in Detroit during the 1930’s, a man named Joseph Figlock was walking down the street when a baby fell from a window and landed on Figlock, neither was harmed. A year later, Figlock was walking down the same street when the same baby fell from the window onto him again, neither was harmed.
nPgo TIL The Number of the Beast (666) may have actually be a mistranslation. The actual Number of the Beast may actually be 616.
6E9mQ TIL the Number 1 regret of the dying is not having the courage to live the life they wanted
Mel4m TIL after recording the first "2000-Year-Old Man" record, Mel Brooks & Carl Reiner weren't sure people would like it. Then Cary Grant played it for the Queen of England, who loved it. Brooks said, "Well if the biggest shiksa in the world loves it, we're home free." The record launched their careers.
PkmE TIL that Otto von Bismarck predicted that European politics will break 20 years after his death. He also predicted that the war will “come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans.”