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TIL that Disneyland's first murder happened at Tomorrowland
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TIL that lots of kids are named Bluey. It was the 9,217 most popular baby girl name and 8,212 most popular baby boy name in 2023. It was also a somewhat popular name before the kids tv show Bluey began production in 2018.
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TIL that Able Archer 83 was a war exercise conducted by NATO that panicked the Soviets into thinking they were really being attacked and so nearly launched a nuclear retaliation in response; it is now considered to be the nearest that mankind went into nuclear war since the Cuban Missile Crisis
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TIL when Eddie Murphy was on SNL in the early 80s, other cast members often had to go downstairs after shows to catch a cab for him because no cab drivers would stop for a young black man late at night.
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TIL of Nicholas Winton, a man who rescued 669 mostly Jewish children from Czechoslovakia on the eve of WWII. He died at age 106 in 2015.
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TIL - In Finland they have ‘National Sleepy Head day’, where the last person in a family to wake up is thrown in to a lake or the sea by the rest of the family.