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

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m1JBM TIL that in 1994, a Washington State man’s death sentence was overturned because the Judge believed that the man’s weight could cause him to be decapitated by the scheduled hanging - deeming him “too obese to hang”
X00LQ Today I learned that the Samurai were not only trained how to kill, but how to do it aesthetically. Considering killing to be an artform of the highest aesthetics needed for Self Perfection.
lokW7 TIL that there is actually an “Old Zealand” that New Zealand is named for: It was the Dutch Maritime Province of Zeeland, located near modern Belgium.
e8G6 TIL Costco hasn’t changed the price of its $1.50 hot dog/soda combo since the mid-1980s.
KOOpG Not yet, though we've been trying to do so since at least the 1970s.