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TIL of the Mayak nuclear facility: A nuclear reprocessing plant in Russia that has exposed 450,000 to radiation and was caught dumping untreated nuclear waste in the river from 2001-2004.

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kJeY1 TIL the Ancient Greeks believed that the North Pole was actually a sunny and temperate sanctuary called Hyperborea, which was blessed by Apollo.
wokE7 TIL it's possible to sprain a tooth.
1GBV TIL Sweden has a nuclear bunker system under Stockholm that has some of the biggest servers hosted at. ex: Wiki leaks and The Pirate Bay.
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5Yjpn TIL baseball announcer Phil Rizzuto publicly maintained he was tricked by Meatloaf when he recorded "Paradise by the Dashboard Light" and did not know the song was about sex. But Meatloaf states Rizzuto did know the truth, but felt like he had to deny it after being confronted by his parish priest.