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TIL that from 1959-67, the US had a quasi-secret military base in Greenland built in tunnels dug under the snow. Camp Century was a scientific research station on arctic bases, but was really a cover for a second strike nuclear launch site.

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LQmld TIL that pumpernickel (the German whole grain sourdough bread) literally means "farting devil" or "devil's farts."
8elGb TIL that the United States Air Force owns 4 Doomsday planes specifically designed for nuclear war, and one of them has a callsign named 'ORDER66'
69XKw TIL about Ota Benga, an indigenous Mbuti who was featured at a 1904 human zoo (Louisiana Purchase Exposition). There he was kept, caged, with an orangutan as an attempt to ridicule Darwinism. He was given a bow and arrow so as to "enhance the primitive image".
BpmL TIL in 1958 while widening a road the RAF discovered that a fifteen year-old display mockup of the biggest bomb ever used in WWII was not merely a mockup but was actually a live bomb.
aYly TIL that after Thomas Edison ripped off the first film camera from France, he used copyright laws to restrict imports of other cameras to the US. Sometimes he would use hired thugs (the Edison mafia) to violently stop people from using other cameras.