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TIL, "Nosferatu" (1922) was nearly deleted from history because of copyright infringement

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NAa1 TIL during the Chernobyl Disaster, Aleksandr Lelechenko saved his colleagues from radiation exposure by walking through radioactive water three times in place of his younger colleagues. He died less than 2 weeks after the disaster.
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