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TIL About 70% of the radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl disaster landed in Belarus, heavily contaminating one-fourth of the country, one-fifth of its agricultural land and affecting at least 7 million people.

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ned8W TIL in 2002 three geriatric Catholic nuns broke into a US nuclear missile launch facility, vandalized it with hammers, and drew crosses on the silo with their own blood.
J1OLk TIL that privacy self-management (i.e., the principle that people individually manage their privacy via notice and consent) is based on multiple "fundamentally wrong" assumptions.
jnMX TIL a 10 year old boy was captured and sold into slavery by the King of Algiers in the 16th Century, and he rose to become one of the richest, most influential, and well-liked Barbary pirates, and his name was Ali Bitchin.
7rAkx TIL for the role of Fin Tutuola in the show Law and Order: SVU, when Ice-T asked Producer Dick Wolf how it was to be performed, he was told to "do what Ice-T would do if he were a cop."