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TIL that in 2001, a 13-year-old Boy Scout named Cody Clawson went missing for over 18 hours near Yellowstone Park. Clawson resorted to using his belt buckle to signal to planes overhead. Eventually, he got a pilot’s attention - and that pilot was none other than Harrison Ford - who rescued Clawson.

TIL that "Killing baby Hitler" is an ethical and theoretical physics experiment. It explores the idea of time-traveling to assassinate infant Adolf Hitler, delving into ethical consequences and temporal paradoxes.

TIL after the setbacks in the Korean War, US considered using nuclear weapons in North Korea and parts of China, intending to create a belt of radioactive fallout zones between China and North Korea. Enemy could not have marched across that for at least 60 years.