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TIL In 2013 an 82 year old nun broke into a government complex that housed nuclear missiles and spray painted anti-war slogans; she was sentenced to 3 years in prison.

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jBJv TIL 3 people were hanged for the 1660 murder of William Harrison in the year 1661. In 1662, William Harrison returned on a ship after escaping slavery, having been kidnapped by pirates. This lead to the “no body, no murder” rule.
DRDP TIL that CGI rendering software, used to model gravitational lensing around black holes and wormholes, in the film ‘Interstellar’ was so accurate it’s creation produced three scientific papers and are likely the best visualizations of said effects ever created.
9bdQ TIL that the windshield of the SR-71 Blackbird can reach a temperature of over 600°F during flights at mach 3. It had to be made of quartz and was ultrasonically fused to the titanium hull in order to handle the stress.
65Y7 TIL that there have been more than 600 assassination attempts on Fidel Castro, making him the number one person to survive the most assassination attempts.
mZbM TIL that in 1956 a 95 year old man named Samuel Seymour was the mystery subject on the original “I’ve Got a Secret” game show. His secret? He had witnessed the Lincoln assassination at Ford’s Theater.