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TIL Kim Jong Il's birth name was Yuri Irsenovich Kim

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Z6yQ TIL in 1980 A single dropped ratchet in an Air Force missile silo resulted in an ruptured tank that led to an explosion that destroyed the silo and shot a nuclear warhead 100 feet from the complex entry gate. They then just filled in the giant hole.
j6XwN TIL Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn’t allowed to dub his own role in Terminator in German, as his accent is considered very rural by German/Austrian standards and it would be too ridiculous to have a death machine from the future come back in time and sound like a hillbilly.
vPvEj TIL that D.B. Cooper was never the alias used by the infamous highjacker. In fact, this was the name of an early suspect, who was eventually cleared of the crime. Due to the mistake of a reporter, the name D.B. stuck.
E1LVd TIL that electronic television was first successfully demonstrated in San Francisco on September 7, 1927. The system was designed by Philo Taylor Farnsworth, a 21-year-old inventor who had lived in a house without electricity until he was 14.
E1p1o TIL that a man with a low IQ of 48 was banned from having sex, the High Court Justice Nicholas Mostyn said that Alan did not have the mental capacity to understand the health risks and should not have sex with anyone.