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TIL that after the Chernobyl disaster in 1986 only the reactor No. 4 was nonoperational. The other 3 reactors continued to operate. Only in 2000 the last one was shut down.

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V0w4 TIL There is an Island in the Bahamas Inhabited Only by Swimming Pigs
R5wk4 TIL Chuck Norris was an Air Force security policeman in 1958, and learned martial arts while stationed in South Korea. Returning to California he tried to become a police officer but had great success opening karate schools and participating in competitions.
KOrJ6 TIL: The UN Child Convention, which protects children (people under 18), has been accepted by all 195 countries in the world, except South Sudan and the United States.
oRve8 TIL In 1997 a number of people from Kentucky developed CJD (aka human mad cow disease). It was discovered that all had consumed squirrel brains.
X4vQ TIL Forrest Gump’s investment in Apple stock would be worth nearly $7billion today.