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TIL When Ronald Reagan became president of the United States he asked his Chief of Staff to see “The War Room”. No one had informed him that it was only a movie set that was created fictionally for the black comedy “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb”.

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xVQ8D TIL that the lead singer of the California punk band The Offspring (Self Esteem, Come Out and Play, etc.) has a Ph.D in Molecular Biology and that his dissertation focused on HIV/AIDS research.
VM56Q TIL Tree experts pointed out a mistake in current Canadian currency. Instead of it's notes featuring Canadian maple leaves, it instead features Norwegian maple leaves. Although, both look fairly similar.
VBKGB TIL about the self-propelled barge T-36, which drifted 49 days across the North Pacific Ocean in 1960 after being disabled, with all sailors on board surviving the journey by rationing three days' supply of food. Returning to the Soviet Union, the crew had popularity close to that of cosmonauts.
PYxOO TIL that in 1970 the fifa ball was changed to black and white (from traditional brown) so the viewer watching in b/w TV's will be able to see the ball clearly,even though the vast majority of footballs were then still brown.
j650j TIL the lowest body temperature ever survived by a person was measured at 11.8°C in a 27-month year toddler 10 minutes after blood flow was reestablished in the patient. The lowest recorded body temperature in a surviving adult is 13.7°C