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TIL There are people who firmly believe nuclear weapons are a hoax

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leLK TIL that in 1985, police engaged in a standoff with the black liberation group ‘MOVE’ at their home in Philadelphia. A massive firefight ensued in which the police used choppers to drop two C4 bombs on the roof. The fire destroyed 65 houses and 11 people died.
oBLpo TIL Anna Nicole Smith never actually got money when her 90-year-old husband died. His will left his $1.6 billion estate to his son and nothing to her.
6ElBw TIL that Elvis Presley recorded over 600 songs throughout his career and did not write a single one of them on his own.
nOrW TIL that during WWII the Dutch resistance recruited teen girls to seduce Nazis so they could shoot them in the woods
kJ6x5 TIL The Apollo Mission Control Center at NASA Johnson Space Center was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1985. NASA and National Park Service restored it to the exact moment the 1969 Moon landing took place where controllers celebrated with their cigars