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TIL that animal populations are growing in Chernobyl since humans left. Among them, a herd of Przewalski’s horses, the only truly wild horse in the world, introduced in 1998.

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YppmA TIL Boston City Hall has been described as "one of the world's ugliest buildings".
R9P6 TIL of the Battle of Long Tan, where 106 Australian troops beat back and defeated a Vietcong force of ~2000
e0YGb TIL that the chief baker on the Titanic, Charles Joughin, drank an entire bottle of whiskey as the ship sank and spent 3 hours in the -2°c waters before he was rescued alive
aQoJ TIL that John Hughes wrote Ferris Bueller’s Day Off in less than a week and went on to shoot the film on what was essentially his first draft of the script.
gn7W TIL in WW2 the Finnish bombers joined the formations of returning Russian planes and bombed the landing and landed planes.