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TIL: The US tried to hide nuclear missiles in Greenland without Danish knowledge in Project Iceworm.

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GQXJ TIL there was a Chrono Trigger 3D/HD Remake in the works up until 2004 when SquareEnix issued a cease and desist letter to the company making the game.
MeVX0 TIL that Apatheism is the belief that if a god exists, or not, it does not matter, because the effect is the same. Therefore there is no point engaging in worship or even positing the question of existence of the god at all.
dBjE TIL gruntled is a word, and it is the opposite of the word disgruntled.
VBJAQ TIL there are no Burger Kings in Australia thanks to a single restaurant already having the name so they chose Hungry Jack's instead
p8aVQ TIL after a Japanese Destroyer rammed the ship Naval Lieutenant John F. Kennedy was on during WW2, Kennedy swam for 5 hours towards an island while towing one of his badly burned crewman by clasping a scrap of the crewman's lifejacket between his teeth despite sustaining a back injury from the crash