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TIL A Czech nuclear power plant held a bikini contest to choose new interns, sidestepping the normal way of vetting candidates by going off of their knowledge of nuclear physics.

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a5RM TIL that in 1978, over 500 silent films were discovered buried in the Yukon permafrost, including footage of the scandalous 1919 World Series.
6NYX TIL on February 15, 1933, the Mayor of Chicago was shot by an Assassin who was instead aiming at President FDR. The Mayors reportedly said on the way to the hospital, where he later died: “I’m glad it was me and not you, Mr. President”
kOWde TIL that Sammy Byrd is the only person to have played in a World Series of baseball and competed in golf's Masters Tournament.
4XX4w TIL Terry Gross from NPR's Fresh Air does all her interviews in a dark room and they are not face to face , or often even in the same state
b9dYE TIL when Michael Bay was 15 George Lucas made him work on the storyboard to Raiders of the Lost Ark and after seeing the movie in theater he decided to become a film director.