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TIL that Disneyland's first murder happened at Tomorrowland

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BgVXx 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.
yVbLa 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
yARl 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.
Brvob 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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