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TIL Japan had plans to evacuate the entirety of Tokyo after the meltdown of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant

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p8gWG TIL in 1959 Cornell physicists had speculated that any extraterrestrial civilization attempting to communicate via radio signals might do so using a frequency of 1420 mHz which is naturally emitted by hydrogen. 18 years later that exact transmission was read in Ohio, nicknamed the "Wow! signal".
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