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TIL a Nuclear Ballistic Missile was almost launched from McConnell Air Force Base in 1980 because a technician loaded the wrong data into a computer. The crew was able to avoid the launch after switching off the main power to the building.

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7JZb TIL that Kanzi, a male bonobo, once snapped twigs for a fire, lit them with matches, and toasted marshmallows on a stick. He is also an accomplished stone tool maker and can flake cutting knives. He can play and understand how to beat a game of Pac-Man, too.
oBPeo TIL blind from birth, Seve Fyffe, 67, began training at age six and now holds a fifth dan belt in Aikido. "…if someone was foolish enough to attack me they'd be in for a shock. I can fight up to six people at a time. The hardest is four because they are coming at you from four different directions”
QNMnd TIL the Sargasso Sea, located entirely in the Atlantic Ocean, is the only sea without a land boundary on the planet.
VpLm TIL Instead of pursuing illegal downloads with legal action, Iron Maiden found out where the most downloads were taking place and booked concerts there.
kdm7 TIL that in 1995 an Australian doctor created the ‘Deliverance Machine’: a euthanasia device which utilised a software called 'Deliverance’ - patients were posed three questions via a notebook computer, if they answered yes to all three, the machine administered a lethal dose of barbiturates.