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TIL that after the release of the 1983 movie “Wargames”, visitors were so unimpressed with what NORAD actually looked like, that NORAD realized it was time to give their facility a major upgrade

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m1NDO TIL a door jamb is a part of a door, not when a bunch of people get stuck in a door way
ANkN4 TIL That, until recently, people who spent more than six months in Britain from 1980 to 1997 were unable to donate blood because of an outbreak of "mad cow disease" in the area at that time
gMV17 TIl there exists photographs of soldiers who fought alongside Napoleon (taken circa 1858).
pYyWe TIL that the couple depicted in Grant Wood's famous painting "American Gothic" is that of a father and his daughter, not a husband and wife.
voa8 TIL those scaffolds that cover sidewalks all over NYC are called “Sidewalk Sheds,” long enough to wrap around Manhattan six times and were due to a law passed in 1980 after a 17 year old girl was hit in the head by a falling brick. It created a billion dollar industry with sheds often up for years.