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TIL in 1983, a soviet military officer “saved the world” from a full-blown nuclear war by disobeying orders, after receiving a false alarm of missiles fired by the USA

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1W44 TIL that 3 marathon runners ran across the entire Sahara - that’s an equivalent of 2 marathons/day for 111 days, totaling approximately 4,000 miles! They started at the Atlantic Ocean in Senegal and ended at the Red Sea in Cairo.
AnVw TIL that Han’s full name in the Fast and Furious series was “Han Seoul-Oh”
N7weE TIL the Reagan Administration laughed about the AIDS epidemic during three separate press conferences
1p9V TIL that famous ring announcer Michael Buffer has earn over $400 million from his trademarked phrase “Let’s get ready to rumble!”
v1YVR TIL Lucy Punch, also known as Esme Squalor from A Series of Unfortunate Events, has played an evil stepsister in no fewer than four different versions of Cinderella