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TIL the Doomsday Clock is set to 3 minutes to midnight, the first time since 1984

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DQKAv TIL that the official U.S. agency (USAGM) during 2023 had an audience of 420 million people worldwide in all its media.
5Y1Rk TIL the girl in the iconic National Geographic photo was arrested decades later in Pakistan on charges of fraudulently obtaining national identity cards.
AE8o TIL in 1957 a US Air Force pilot caught in bad weather discovered his prototype jet fighter had no cockpit lighting. He managed to navigate and land the aircraft by periodically flicking a Zippo cigarette lighter and using the flame to read the instruments.
Oj9R TIL an RTI(Right to Information) was filed by an Indian guy asking for India’s nuclear launch codes in India.
XLo6 TIL Subway Passed McDonald’s as the World’s Largest Franchise in 2010