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TIL that before Summer Glau met Joss Whedon and got cast in Firefly, she auditioned for Power Rangers

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Bg0dx TIL in 1969, a drunk Richard Nixon ordered a nuclear strike on North Korea for shooting down a spy plane. Henry Kissinger, his National Security Advisor, got on the phone to the Joint Chiefs and was able to convince them to stand down on that order until Nixon woke up sober the next morning
j6jgv TiL that bog bodies (natural mummies) have formed inadvertently as recently as 1945
oRo5R TIL a woman secretly kept her lover hidden in her attic for over a decade; he emerged only to kill her husband
nwGo TIL Greyhounds have a 270-degree range of vision. They can see objects behind them and over ½ mile in front of them
VB4Yk TIL That until the year 1991 it was illegal for bars in Virginia to serve or employ homosexuals. It was being actively enforced until a 1991 US District Court case struck it down.