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TIL The city of Perth in Western Australia is geographically the most remote city in the world (by land). The nearest city of more than 100,000 people is almost 1500 miles away.
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TIL that a literary prank 1963 convinced germany that Hansel and Gretel were real.
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TIL: An Officer in the Air Force was fired for questioning whether or not a drunk President should have the power to launch a nuclear strike.
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TIL Oliver Sipple, who stopped an assassination attempt on Gerald Ford, was disowned by his family and was never invited to the white house to be thanked because he was gay.
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TIL that Sir James Chadwick, the English physicist who discovered the neutron and was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1935, actually enrolled in Physics by mistake when he was a University student. He wanted to study maths. He also led the British team of the Manhattan project.