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TIL of Harold Hering, a nuclear missile crewman who was kicked out of the military for asking “How can I know that an order to launch my missiles came from a sane president?”

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gED8 TIL On 9/11, when all transport out of the city was shut down, citizen boat owners managed to transport over 500k people from Manhattan Island in an amazing act known as the “9/11 Boatlift”
8Zx4 TIL That for over 1,000 years a horn has been blown in Ripon every night at 9pm in the four corners of the town square. It is allegedly the longest running unbroken daily ritual in the world.
wjVJ TIL that in India mobile internet was used 4.1 million times per month on average to search with the word ‘rape’ over the past year.Search keywords included “Indian girls raped”, “raping video”,“raped in public”, “little girl raped”, “raping mom”, “father raping daughter” and “raped to death”.
0wOjM TIL of Operation Bernhard, a Nazi plan to collapse the British economy by airdropping fake bank notes over England. The program produced up to 300 million Pounds, including £100,000 notes.
O7Gg TIL US teenagers aren’t into driving as much now and one theory is that social media may be taking the place of motorized transportation as virtual contact, through electronic means, reduces the need for actual contact