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TIL the Make-A-Wish Foundation granted 12-year-old leukemia survivor Declan McLean-Pauley’s wish to blow a bunch of shit up

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GYn04 TIL In 1980 Jimmy Carter’s national security adviser was awoken to a report of 2,200 incoming Soviet missiles... it was a false alarm due to the malfunction of a 46 cent chip.
wp17 TIL New York tried to outlaw leaded gasoline back in the early 1920’s - before it was commonplace. However, the Federal Government sided with Big Oil, overruling the state’s decision.
W5nX TIL there is a Finnish Christmas film called Rare Export in which Santa Claus is a killer monster
ybEw TIL that camels are native to North America and used to exist nowhere else in the world.
LQLjZ TIL that Mr Fantastic originally first met invisible woman (his wife) when she was twelve and he was in college. Marvel understandably retconned this decades later.