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TIL about "Project Iceworm", a top-secret 1958 $2.7 billion U.S. plan to convert part of the Arctic into a launchpad for nuclear missiles, including a nuclear reactor. Due to shifting Greenland ice sheets, the plan was scrapped in 1967, & the massive underground structure thereafter collapsed

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J8N8 TIL sex can generate a 25-45% increase in ejaculate volume compared to masturbation
pgBO TIL in Rocky (1976), Rocky 2 (1979), and Rocky Balboa (2006), Rocky’s pet turtles Cuff and Link were the same two turtles each time.
OGZAL TIL that the jerrycan was invented in Nazi Germany. Jerry, also often phrased as Gerry, was used by the allies when referring to German soldiers. So jerrycan means something like “German can”.
KOKna TIL: During the 2008 recession, WHO and CDC reported an increase of 5,000 suicides in the first year per country.
neWvY TIL in July 2010 Sogen Kato was thought to be the oldest living Japanese man until his remains were discovered in his bedroom where he died 32 years before