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TIL that each color in a roll of Smarties candy has its own flavor, and that green is strawberry

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OAB7 TIL that in 1962 Soviet Senior Officer Vasili Arkhipov convinced his captain not to launch a nuclear torpedo on the US after the submarine they were on was rocked by US depth charges, therefore single handedly stopping nuclear war.
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