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TIL: there is a city in Russia so contaminated with nuclear waste, that people check their food with a Geiger counter before purchase.

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Yp4RP TIL about Juliane Diller who, at 17, survived a plane explosion then fell to the ground still strapped to her seat. She then survived by following a river for nine days until she came across some loggers who rescued her.
yVYbw TIL that the biggest butterfly in the world has a 31cm wingspan. It belongs to the Queen Alexandra's Birdwing butterfly, which you can find in the forests of the Oro Province, in the east of Papua New Guinea.
9wp6G TIL Mount St. Helens is a non-technical climb and it takes most climbers 8 to 12 hours roundtrip to hike to summit, but entry into the crater is strictly prohibited
Gx8G TIL A handful of Bronze-Age men could have fathered two thirds of Europeans
16Gkr TIL: Children from divorced families dies five years earlier on average