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TIL that in 1985, while taking a break from the Geneva Summit, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev agreed to ally with one another if aliens attacked

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dDyNE TIL that Rudolf Nureyev's grave in a Paris cemetery is draped with a beautiful, realistic mosaic of an oriental Kilim rug, in order to reflect the ballet dancer's life-long love of textiles and antiques.
kJ9KW TIL the red phone, the hotline between USA and Russia has never been a phone and was never red
oBalY TIL a British nurse named Edith Cavell helped treat soldiers regardless of their nationalities in WWI. She also helped them escape from German occupied Belgium. When caught, she refused to lie about her actions and was executed by firing squad.
0Z0v TIL that Kim Ung-yong understood algebra at age 3, by the time he was 2 could speak 4 languages fluently, started attending university at age 4 and graduated at age 8, and has the highest I.Q. (210) in the world.
6EEDw TIL scientists use sunflowers to clean up nuclear radiation