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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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9wPeM TIL the glass doors on a wood fireplace are supposed to be open when a fire is going
X0XVD TIL that an average hurricane releases a phenomenal amount of energy through the formation of clouds and rain: about 5.2 x 10^19 Joules per day. This is about 200 times more electricity than humans produce planetwide.
nW9aW TIL Barbara Morgan, a US teacher-turned-astronaut, had close ties to both fatal Space Shuttle tragedies
WQa9 TIL there is a phone booth sitting in the Mojave desert. It’s number is 760-733-9969 and if you call the number you will be ringed into a conference of other people.
rN1wy TIL that the first American Artist to cover a Beatles song was Del Shannon with his 1963 cover of "From Me to You". Del Shannon's cover also became the first Lennon–McCartney composition to make the American charts when it entered the Billboard Hot 100 on June 29th, 1963