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TIL Chernobyl has been safe to visit since 2011 and that most of the danger is not from radiation but from unmaintained structures.

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Eabd TIL “Town Destroyer” was a nickname given to George Washington by Iroquois Native Americans in 1753.
e0VoE TIL Minnesota keeps the original Confederate flag hidden and refuses to give it up, even when Virginia sued for it
Me8MB TIL that though 355 of 100,000 people identify as trans, only 9.2 request or receive surgery or hormone therapy
769M TIL in 1999 a French Holocaust survivor reduced Shell Oil’s accident rate 84 percent by making oil rig workers talk about their feelings
BreyD TIL Nintendo experimented with a modem add-on for the NES that would allow Minnesota residents to play the state lottery on their NES. They also had plans to enable stock trading and online gaming. The idea was scrapped however, because it was thought it would encourage underage gambling.