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TIL that Dr. Seuss wrote a book about political tension, the arms race, the threat of nuclear weapons, and the Cold War in 1984

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Oo4oY TIL There exists a non profit organization whose sole mission is to assure the six Apollo lunar landing sites are preserved and protected for posterity by having them included on the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s (UNESCO) World Heritage List
dAdK TIL that in 1997 a 23 year old French man took the identity of 16 year old missing child from San Antonio, Texas. Which got him from Spain, to America, got him a U.S. citizenship and fooled the family that he was their child.
yVQkJ TIL In 1968 South Korea hatched a plan to assassinate Kim Il Sung that went terribly wrong: Recruits (petty criminals) snapped during intense training on a remote island, killed their trainers, hijacked and blew up a bus in Seoul, killing 15... In all 37 people killed, 7 missing and 30 wounded.
Y7pMr TIL Idaho has an anti-sodomy law that criminalizes anal or oral sex between all genders and forces individuals convicted to register as sex offenders.
mx0vx TIL that the American-produced, 1964 stop-motion Christmas television classic "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" was filmed in Tokyo and voiced primarily by Canadian actors. It has aired at least annually in America since 1964, making it the longest continuously running Christmas TV special in history