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TIL that Reagan and Gorbachev agreed to pause the Cold War in case of an alien Invasion

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Z8ZwR TIL Mummies are sometimes used in medicine to calibrate CAT scan machines
8a0EV TIL Little Richard was an ordained minister, and officiated the weddings of several celebrities, including Tom Petty, Cyndi Lauper, Demi Moore/Bruce Willis, and Stevie Van Zandt
AD6Bg TIL Denny's began in 1953 as "Danny's Donuts," then was renamed"Danny's Coffee Shops." After learning there was a local chain called "Coffee Dan's," the founders, neither named Danny or Denny, changed the name to "Denny's Coffee Shops," and later just "Denny's."
p8wx8 TIL that Balto, the sled dog who delivered lifesaving diphtheria antitoxin to Nome, Alaska, in 1925, was present for the unveiling of his own statue in Central Park!
xBgb TIL that doctors in countries with more “socialized medicine” only make slightly less annually than U.S. doctors. A major argument against social medicine is that doctors should be well-paid, and social medicine would demand major pay cuts.