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TIL The Chernobyl nuclear plant continued to produce electricity until finally decommissioned in 2000.

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v1rAB TIL Gorillas are vegans – the only lapse is the occasional ant – eating leaves, flowers, shoots and stems. A big male needs to consume 75lb of food a day, so they spend much of their time grazing, with the occasional downtime for naps. Their lives are ‘a picnic party with no beginning and no end’
r6wx TIL that Dennis Hopper was doing 3 grams of cocaine and drinking a half a gallon of rum and 28 beers a day around the time he acted in Apocalypse Now.
GAoBg TIL that the garden of the Taj Mahal was designed by Ali Mardan Khan, a Kurdish chief belonging to the Zîk tribe, who was one of the emirs of Mughal Emperor Shah Jehan.
voY7 TIL that Ghandi slept naked along with his great-niece and several other young women to test his ability to abstain from sexual relations as part of a spiritual chastity experiment.
gMPwD TIL The world’s deadliest serial killer, Luis Garavito, admitted to killing 140 people, and was sentenced to 835 years in prison. He was convicted on the deaths of 189 people over 7 years, and is suspected to have murdered many more.