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TIL Russia has 44 “closed cities” where no foreign visitors are allowed. About 1.5 million people live in such cities.

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eAL TIL a kamikaze pilot who struck the USS Missouri during WWII was given a military burial at sea with full honors after the captain decided the young Japanese pilot had done his job to the best of his ability. The dent in the side of the ship remains to this day.
W1dY TIL Star Trek’s Scotty, James Doohan, was a CDN soldier who landed on Juno Beach, killed two snipers and cleared a minefield before even getting off the beachhead.
N7Lre TIL that Peter Glasser was granted a patent in 1973 for converting solar energy to electricity in outer space and beaming them back to earth as microwave energy using a large antenna (up to one square km).
rRVDe TIL there was a game called “The Sims Online”, an MMO version of The Sims 1. The game was active from 2002-2008 before the servers were shut down. Recently the game has been reincarnated as “FreeSO”, which is currently playable in beta.
8a7rL TIL the first Grand Wizard of the KKK later changed his mind and argued in defense of racial equality