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TIL Argentina and Chile are the only two countries you can “Dig to China” from.

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xkj0 TIL In 1945, Japanese radar operators detected a small number of incoming US planes (which carried the nuclear bombs to be dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki), but decided not to intercept them as the small number of planes were not seen as a threat.
enQL TIL after the Battle of Hastings, King Harold’s body was identified by the tattoo above his heart which read ‘Edith and England’
Z0Mv TIL Missy Elliot qualified as a genius through an IQ test as a child, skipped two grades of school, only to deliberately fail afterwards so she could return to her friends in the younger grade.
45bw TIL Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn’t allowed to voice himself in the German dub of “The Terminator” because the producers thought that his Austrian accent wasn’t tough enough for the Terminator. In fact he’s never dubbed himself in all of his movies since.
x6jmb TIL that in 2003, metal singer Ronnie James Dio severed his thumb during a gardening accident when a heavy garden gnome fell onto it. Dio was concerned he would no longer be able to do his signature "devil's horns” hand gesture, but a doctor managed to re-attach it.