The number of nuclear weapons in the world is down from ~70,000 in 1986 to ~14,000 in 2020. – WTF Fun Facts
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WTF Fun Fact – Aeroflot Flight 6502
In 1986, Soviet pilot Alexander Kliuyev made a bet with his co-pilot that he could land Aeroflot Flight 6502 using an instrument-only approach with curtained cockpit windows (no visual contact with the ground.) The plane ultimately crashed and 70 people died. – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – Ronald McNair
In 1959, police were called to a segregated library in S. Carolina when 9yr-old Ronald McNair refused to leave. He later got a PhD in Physics from MIT and died in 1986 aboard the space shuttle Challenger. The library that refused to lend him books is now named after him. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_McNair