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TIL Kobe Bryant Was Named By His Parents After The Famous Japanese Kobe Beef

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X0paR TIL that from 1959-67, the US had a quasi-secret military base in Greenland built in tunnels dug under the snow. Camp Century was a scientific research station on arctic bases, but was really a cover for a second strike nuclear launch site.
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