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TIL after days of hiding it from the world, Soviet was forced to acknowledge the Chernobyl disaster after an engineer at a power plant 1000miles away in Sweden surprisingly noticed radiation on his shoes on his way INTO the plant. They traced the wind patterns and reported the location of the source

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GYZk4 TIL the Australian slang phrase, "Pissing in a person's pocket", means to insincerely attempt to convince a person that you're doing them a favor, when you actually have only your own interests (generally either making a profit or ingratiating oneself) at heart.
kVQe TIL Africans are the only modern humans that aren’t part Neanderthal
G9wJ TIL a man named John Wesley Hyatt invented a replacement for ivory billiard balls. The balls were made of nitrocellulose, a substance prone to exploding when struck by things such as a pool cue.
BMx TIL Joe Paterno, most likely, pooped his pants during a game against Ohio State. Seriously, here’s the video!
e0rEE TIL that the 1952 presidential election was the first American political race that employed 30-second TV ads, and the Eisenhower campaign’s embrace of this technology vs Stevenson’s traditional campaign style was a major factor in Eisenhower’s landslide victory.