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TIL the city of Pripyat, Ukraine built an amusement park scheduled to open May 1, 1986, but never operated for more than a few hours before being forever abandoned after the April 26 Chernobyl nuclear disaster a few kilometers away.

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WmyL TIL that Jackie Chan’s first movie appearance, Big and Little Wong Tin Bar (1962), was considered to be a lost film, as no known copies of the film existed. However, this was not the case, as on February 3rd, 2016, the entire movie was suddenly uploaded to YouTube.
XE0DP TIL that during WWII, a bomb landed, but didnt explode, inside the German VW factory. If it had exploded, the post-war Beetles that we commonly see would've never existed.
a8gmL TIL Limp Bizkit was the last band to perform on the world trade centre, in September 2000, with their music video "Rolling".
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