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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
yVQEv TIL that burning fat through food deprivation or just general metabolism causes THC to go back into blood stream for smokers of marijuana.
erag TIL that during filming of “The Hobbit” in green screen with no one else to act with, Ian McKellan burst into tears and said, “This is not why I became an actor”
xV7GB TIL English sweating sickness, which caused profuse sweating and sometimes led to a rapid death, remains a mystery more than five centuries later. After raging for more than 60 years, the last major outbreak of the disease in England was recorded in 1551. Then the "English sweat" simply vanished.
ABn TIL that Sleipnir, Odin’s horse, is the child of Loki…..the product of him being raped by a stallion.