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TIL in 1979, the movie "The China Syndrome" - about a nuclear reactor failure in Pennsylvania - premiered 12 days before an actual nuclear reactor failure in Pennsylvania called the Three Mile Island accident.

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5PlD TIL the word ‘paparazzi’ is derived from the Italian term for a very large mosquito.
KprJ TIL that FDR prepared a speech for Jefferson Day on April 13, 1945 - the day after he died. His final words were to be: “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.”
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6EwnY TIL that the rate of colorectal cancer has been rising in young adults in the US and no single factor has been identified for this trend.