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TIL that to film Stranger Things Starcourt Mall, they reconstructed a real 1980s style mall in a dying shopping mall in Georgia.

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b9wwp TIL that the nuclear warning systems for both US and Russia aim to detect a nuclear weapons before they hit the target so that a retaliation can be launched before their own weapons are destroyed. The system has given at least 22 false alarms which could have caused a nuclear war.
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