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TIL an Atlas nuclear missile silo in Kansas was converted to luxury condos for survivalists

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dDwlj TIL that in Toy-story, the characters name is actually “Buzz light year not Buzz light gear”
d6X8 TIL that in 1983, the Soviet Union shot down a commercial Korean flight (departing via Anchorage) when it drifted in Russian airspace. As a result, President Reagan declassified a secret U.S. military system to aid international flight tracking. Today this system is known as GPS.
ADGOB TIL For every 200 million sperm in each human ejaculation, 2 million make it into the cervix, 1 million make it into the uterus, 10,000 make it to the top of the organ, 5,000 enter the uterotubal junction, 1000 enter the Fallopian tube, 200 reach the egg and only 1 enters the egg to fertilize it.
0d785 TIL of the Great Leonids Meteor Storm that occurred on November 13th, 1833 in which more than 72,000 meteors per hour fell to Earth, and which according to one observer caused the night sky to radiate so bright with falling stars that “people were awakened believing that their house was on fire!”
8eEO8 TIL about Silbannacus, a Roman Emperor whose existence had been completely forgotten until a coin bearing his name was discovered in 1931