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TIL Major Harold Hering was discharged from the Air Force for asking the question "How can I know that an order I receive to launch my missiles came from a sane president?"

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PYxLJ TIL The band blink-182 officially named their holding company Poo Poo Butt Inc. "We did it because it was the most immature, dumbest thing ever," DeLonge said. "We thought it would be funny to have our accountants, managers and attorneys having to say that over the phone every day.”
4WVN TIL a small town in Minnesota declared war on the United States.
bd9E TIL there is an island in the Indian Ocean that is illegal to visit due to a native tribe that kills visitors
ADpY4 TIL Humpty Dumpty is not explicitly described as an egg and is theorized to be a metaphor for King Richard II, or a Cannon
rRwAo TIL that the plagues of the Middle Ages have made around 10% of Europeans resistant to HIV. These individuals carry a genetic mutation (known as CCR5-Ä32) that prevents the virus from entering the cells of the immune system. The plagues of the Middle Ages played a part in creating these mutations.