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TIL that during the 1980s, anti-nuclear groups mapped the locations of ICBM silos in South Dakota. This was not a security risk because the Soviets already knew the sites of all the missiles.

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0dOJy TIL James Lowther, 1st Earl of Lonsdale exercised influence over "rotten" boroughs like Cockermouth and had an affair with a tenant upon whose death he refused burial and placed her decaying corpse in a glass-topped coffin in a cupboard. He was often called "the Earl of Toadstool" or "Wicked Jimmy."
0wp7R TIL about Danny the Street, a DC hero that is a sentient street that can teleport. He crossdresses, by lining the streets with gun shops with frilly lace. He reverts to become a brick, kills a god, becomes a planet, then turns into an ambulance.
pY4bQ TIL about an operation where the Nazi gov't plotted to airdrop the UK with forged banknotes and collapse the British economy. They had successfully introduced forged banknotes into Britain earlier, but this operation failed, and many of the notes were sunk in 2 Austrian lakes.
ep5Zg TIL of the Christopher Thomas Knight aka the "North Pond hermit" who claims to have lived 27 years without human contact. He lived alone in the woods and committed around a thousand burglaries during this time to sustain himself. When he was finally caught he was sentenced to 7 months in jail.
R7X5w TIL about the Storozhevoy's mutiny. Valery Sablin, the ship's political commissar, detained the captain and other officers, prompting a manhunt involving half of the Baltic fleet, including 13 naval vessels and 60 warplanes. This incident was the basis for Tom Clancy's The Hunt for Red October.