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TIL: America’s Nuclear Sponge. Montana, North Dakota, Wyoming, Nebraska and Colorado contain the nuclear silos that would be a primary target of WW3.

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mx0nY TIL Bobby Fischer, one of the greatest chess players of all time was issued a warrant for his arrest by the United States for playing a chess match which would ultimately be his final competitive match.
jnBM TIL in 1959 popular teen heartthrob Neil Sedaka had his first international hit with “Oh! Carol”, addressed to his high school girlfriend Carol Klein. She would later go on to find even greater success of her own as a singer and songwriter under the name Carole King.
woZ98 Til Crocodiles are closer related to birds than to lizards, snakes or turtles. Archosaurs is a group that includes dinosaurs, birds, and crocodilians but not lizards or snakes.
0Bwy TIL in 1977 Billy Joel’s poorly-performing single “Only the Good Die Young” was banned by WSOU-FM, affiliated with Seton Hall University, for its supposed anti-Catholic themes. Other dioceses then started putting pressure on local stations to ban it. As a result of the controversy, sales skyrocketed
XEGGQ Today I learned Audrey Hepburn’s husband frequently cheated on her with younger women