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TIL DEFCON 5 is actually the lowest level of nuclear alert, and DEFCON 1 means imminent nuclear war

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N7oR6 TIL Only 40 songs have ever reached diamond certification (11x platinum). "Baby Shark" is the only children's song to earn this designation.
e0BXL TIL William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy shared a scene in a 1964 episode of "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." - and both had forgotten by the time they first met on the set of Star Trek.
5Bm9 TIL: The Raggedy-Ann doll, created is 1915, was used as a symbol for the anti-vaccination movement. TIL 2: There was an anti-vaccination movement in 1915.
abDZ TIL Giant Rats have been trained to sniff out 14000 landmines and other unexploded arsenal. The rats, which undergo nine months of training, are light enough to not trigger the explosives. They literally work for peanuts!
R5ngj TIL about actor Rip Torn, who, while off his guts on drugs and lack of sleep, attacked writer Norman Mailer with a hammer. On camera.