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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.

5m0B TIL: America’s #1 WWII Flying Ace was Dick Bong.
PDDg TIL Frank Zappa put “musician” as his religion on his son Dweezil’s birth certificate.
DyV TIL Harrison Schmitt and Eugene Cernan repaired the moon rover with duct tape
R79gw TIL the Japan Times ran an article in 2010 predicting (seemingly accurately) the rise in popularity of thick thighs
OGneY TIL: Australia claims ~5.9 million square kilometres of Antarctica (about 42%)