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TIL: The mountain range that the Russian meteor hit today was also the site of the “Dyatlov Pass Incident”, one of the strangest unsolved mysteries of the twentieth century.

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mvEY TIL that in a US military exercise named Millenium Challenge 2002 - the most expensive war games in history - the general commanding the anti-U.S. team used low-tech methods to ‘kill’ over 20,000 simulated U.S. troops. After this, the military made him stick to a script where the U.S. forces 'won’.
X0Jdj TIL Actor Chang Kuo Chu was awarded joint Best Supporting Actor after his name was mistakenly called during the 2007 Golden Bell Awards.
Eg8XW TIL: Cormac McCarthy's inspiration for The Road was when in El Paso, TX with his young son "McCarthy looked out the window late one night and imagined what the city might look like in fifty or one hundred years and saw: "fires up on the hill and everything being laid to waste"
X0XPD TIL of mouth puffing, which is when patients continued to try mouth breathing during sleep even after their mouths had been taped shut
pY504 TIL: The codes which allow the President of the U.S. to authorize a nuclear attack are printed on a plastic card nicknamed "the biscuit." The president is supposed to carry the biscuit at all times.