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TIL in the event of a nuclear attack, the United States will not engage in MAD, but will try to prevent and deal with the effects of a strike, then decide if it wants to retaliate with a nuclear attack of its own

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7ORL TIL Hugh Jackman was supposed to have a brief cameo as Wolverine in SPIDER-MAN (2002). Jackman actually showed up in New York to film the scene, but the entire plan was scrapped when the crew couldn’t get access to the Wolverine costume from X-Men.
GY7nJ TIL: (1906) Long after slavery was abolished there was a caged african man and monkey on display in the Bronx Zoo. Ota Benga later on committed suicide.
b6oRN TIL that there were four Bronze Age wizards who wore huge conical Golden Hats.
VeYm TIL that venting your anger online only makes you angrier, a study found.
v10E8 TIL Greenwich Mean Time is mean because Noon GMT is the annual average moment of the moment the Sun crosses the Greenwich meridian and reaches its highest point in the sky there. It is rarely the exact moment, and may occur up to 16 minutes before or after noon GMT.