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TIL that the town of Anadyr 1 was a secret Soviet nuclear base

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d8yYZ TIL a day before Elvis Presley died on 16 August 1977, Jerry Ehman of Ohio State University detected an unusually strong signal from space. Instead of the typical random numbers, there was a stream 30 times louder than the background buzz of deep space. Ehman was so amazed he wrote the word "wow!"
xVGbg TIL Modern Hollywood was started by a group of independent filmmakers who moved to California in the 1910s to get away from Thomas Edison’s total monopoly on all aspects (scripts, cameras, theaters, actors) of the early, east coast film industry.
4XPW6 TIL Lake Tahoe at one time was named Lake Bigler in honor of the popular third governor of California. However, once it was revealed that Bigler was a Confederate sympathizer during the US Civil War, his name was removed from the lake and renamed Tahoe
nRjB TIL that fans were so fanatical about ‘Star Trek’ that they made Gene Roddenberry nervous. The TV show’s creator said “It frightens me when I learn of 10,000 people treating a Star Trek script as if it were Scripture. I certainly didn’t write Scripture”
7rX9M TIL Space is not cold but has no temperature. A person in space without a spacesuit would not feel cold at first because heat transfer cannot occur as rapidly in space.