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TIL Roger Fisher proposed that in the event that the US President needed to activate nuclear weapons, he (the Pres) would need to get it from a volunteer which has the codes implanted near their heart.

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DvXg TIL Termites eat through wood two times faster when listening to rock music
VM7m4 TIL Hitler's private train was named Amerika.
b9n00 TIL Samuel L Jackson has a clause in his contract to play golf whenever he isnt filming in movies.
V7VB TIL James Bond villain Yaphet Kotto has expressed that the spy should not be played by a black man, saying “Political correctness be damned, we have to stay with what is literally correct. These roles are not written for black men" and “We have pens to create roles that no one else has established.”
N7Bx8 TIL the American artist Sarah Goodridge painted a miniature self-portrait of her breasts which she gave to her lover Daniel Webster in 1828.