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TIL The US Embassy in Moscow was blasted with a microwave transmitter from 1953 to 1976 and a Spanish 2019 study found that “Moscow embassy employees in 1976 had a higher cancer mortality rate than the general population and a worse health status than Europe's embassy employees overall.”

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neXPb TIL cocaine and nicotine have been found in the hair of ancient Egyptian mummies
608w TIL Mel Brooks’ Blazing Saddles premiered at a drive-in movie theater and people riding horses got free admission to watch the movie.
kJPZW TIL there's a live stream for the bridge between Buffalo, NY and Fort Erie, Ont. that has been operating for 18 months straight
pY0o8 TIL about "Project Iceworm", a top-secret 1958 $2.7 billion U.S. plan to convert part of the Arctic into a launchpad for nuclear missiles, including a nuclear reactor. Due to shifting Greenland ice sheets, the plan was scrapped in 1967, & the massive underground structure thereafter collapsed
QJ4mk TIL the phrase 'pulling out all the stops', meaning to use all the resources or force at one's disposal, comes from organ-playing, where it means to literally pull out every knob to play all the pipes at once, thereby creating the fullest possible sound.