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TIL that while humans have abandoned the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, plants and animals are thriving despite the high radiation.

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MRO0 TIL that GPS devices are programmed to automatically shut off if they detect themselves to be traveling more than 1,200 mph at a attitude of more than 60,000 ft, just in case it is attached to an intercontinental ballistic missile.
166oW TIL The Jeremy Kyle Show, a popular UK talk show, was cancelled in 2019 after a guest died of a suspected suicide seven days after he failed a lie detector test on the show. He was taking part in the show in an attempt to prove he had not cheated on his fiancee.
v1Wox TIL that the first human to receive chemotherapy for cancer treatment was baseball legend Babe Ruth.
16aAd TIL about the Society of Mutual Autopsy, established on 1876 by French anthropologists, whose rule was that each member had, on his death, to deliver his body (especially the brain) to the group for autopsy
Y7PLB TIL Kinshasa (DRC) and Brazzaville (Congo), being only 7km across the Congo River from each other, are the second closest pair of capital cities in the world after the Vatican and Rome.