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TIL Switzerland has enough nuclear fallout shelters to accommodate the entire population.

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4XnNa TIL that in 1953, an Australian Centurion main battle tank survived a nuclear test that was only 500 yards away. Later nicknamed the Atomic Tank, it went on to serve in the Australian military for 23 more years, including 15 months of service in Vietnam.
nWa0d TIL That, as of 2016, the video of the on air suicide of Christine Chubbuck still existed and was in the possession of the widow of the late TV station owner Chubbuck had worked at. The video has not been seen since 1974.
epExJ TIL in 1912 Republican presidential candidate Robert M. La Follette gave a speech to a group of 500 journalists in which he berated the group as being corrupt and working with the trusts. The group was shocked and thought he had a mental breakdown; a friend quipped he’d “killed himself politically.”
Arp7 TIL It took the Wizard of Oz’s studio art department almost a week to settle on the final shade of yellow used for the Yellow Brick Road.
awbMZ TIL: About operation "come of power" where by a coven of British witches convened in the forest in 1940 to thwart the Nazi leadership and turn the tide of the war.