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TIL the Canadian Government once approved a plan to extract oil from the Alberta oilsands using nukes, and the project only died because public opinion on nuclear devices soured after the Cuban Missile Crisis.

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R5d01 TIL David Frith, an English journalist, in 1983 commented that India should withdraw from the World Cup if they didn't improve. India won the WC and he literally ate his own words , with the help of some red wine.
5brr TIL Washington Post’s movie critic said Groundhog Day would “never be designated a national film treasure by the Library of Congress.” In 2006, the film was designated a national film treasure by the Library of Congress.
M6wB TIL from 1948 to 1949 Allied Planes made over 278,000 flights and brought 2.8 million tons of aid to West Berliners
WkG9Y TIL over 20% of the documented serial killers in the world have come from a 200-mile radius around Seattle, Washington. There has been a total of 277 serial killers in Washington state with an average number of serial killings of 7.44 per 1 million people.
Koa6 TIL that as NASA’s Jupiter-bound Juno spacecraft swung past Earth on Oct. 9, 2013, amateur radio operators around the world sent a Morse Code “HI” to the spacecraft, and Juno heard them!