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TIL that although the Chernobyl nuclear-power-plant had a meltdown in 1986 and had rendered the land around it uninhabitable, the remaining reactors of the facility remained in normal operation and generated power until 2000.

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9wVWr TIL The US has been at war 225 out of 243 years since 1776
N7QAJ TIL that professional actor John Bradley (who portrayed Samwell Tarley in the TV adaptation of Game Of Thrones) had only graduated from drama school three months before landing his GOT role, which was also his first audition.
v1NkD TIL that a one-way mirror is also called a two-way mirror
epKQ6 TIL that in 1959, Claude Shannon, a mathematician from MIT demonstrated that machines can learn by experience using a mechanical mouse that can remember the previous paths that led to an artificial cheese in a maze.
1BWr TIL America’s deadliest school violence was not Columbine, but Bath, Mich., in 1927 - CSMonitor.com