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TIL, in 1962, an intruder climbing the fence at a Minnesota air base set off the “sabotage alarm” in all bases in the area. In one base, due to wrong wiring, the Klaxon was sounded ordering nuclear-armed aircraft to take off, and the pilots believed WW3 has started. The original intruder was a bear.

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D1roP TIL that a village in India plants 111 trees everytime a girl child is born there!
eYmk TIL Mel Brooks did not have a starring role in “Young Frankenstein” (which he directed and co-wrote with Gene Wilder) because Wilder wouldn’t let him, saying: “You have a way of breaking the fourth wall, whether you want to or not. I don’t want too much to be, you know, a wink at the audience.“
0noR TIL the word “plankton” is plural and “plankter” is the individual noun.
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7rvZp TIL that the most remote inhabited place on earth, the island of Tristan da Cunha, is 1250 miles from the next closest inhabited location. With no airstrip and out of civilian helicopter flying range, the fastest way to travel to it is a 6 day boat journey from South Africa.