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TIL that a video of the moon landing ending in disaster and Nixon reading the "other speech" exists (as part of a project that illustrates the possibilities of deepfake technology)

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yQjoJ TIL a sitting US President was once arrested: Ulysses Grant was forced to go with his arresting officer to the police station to answer for the charge of speeding his horses through town.
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QNk8a TIL a lot of ancient Roman furniture we know about was preserved in cities buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE. High temperatures carbonized the furniture rather than burning it, which left well preserved wooden objects
7Ky7 TIL that for twenty years, the US nuclear launch code was ‘00000000’
PDMV TIL that throughout the duration of HBO’s The Wire, police only fire their weapons three times. All three times it’s the same officer.