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TIL that for 20 years, the nuclear launch code at silos across the US was 0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0 in order to ensure rapid response.

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QvQa TIL in the 50s a white man disguised himself as a black man and travelled to some of the most racially segregated parts of America. He found blatant acts of racism almost everywhere he went, and published a book about his experiences called Black Like Me.
LXyr TIL The quote “I reject your reality and substitute my own!” though it owes its current popularity to Adam Savage of Mythbusters, originally comes from a 1974 episode of Dr. Who
p8o9p TIL that Geddy Lee's "Take Off" (1981) hit #16 on the Billboard Hot 100, which was five positions higher then the highest-charting vocal he had with Rush, 1982's "New World Man."
78L0P TIL of Maurice Wilson who, against all odds, flew his own plane from England to India to be the first to summit Everest under the assumption that ‘prayer and fasting’ would give him the strength to reach the peak.
LX8p TIL when Mel Blanc went into a coma in 1961, his doctors got him to communicate by addressing him as Bugs Bunny. Blanc responded in character but did not remember the conversations.