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TIL Grand Central Station emits more radiation than a nuclear power plant

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Jn51 TIL a Senegalese officer, Mbaye Diagne, drove hundreds to safety during the Rwandan Genocide when no other developed nation would. He died on a trip when a mortar hit his jeep.
BVPW TIL 80% males born in the Soviet Union in 1923 did not survive World War II.
Oo67Y TIL Betty White is actually 4 years older than the Queen of England (Born 1922 to the Queen's 1926)
R5D6Q TIL About the four sons of Horus. Egyptian gods who protected organs in the afterlife.
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