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TIL that Nuclear War during the Cuban Missile Crisis was averted by the action of a single Soviet officer.

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J1K01 TIL of Harambee, a Kenyan tradition of community self-help and organizing. It means "all pull together"
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bM1Z TIL that in 1968 famous Science Fiction writer and atheist Issac Asimov published “Asimov’s guide to the Bible”. Asimov treats the secular aspects of the Bible with intellectual instead of theological commentary.
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