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TIL That fungi are growing on the walls of Chernobyl's ruined nuclear reactor. They seem to absorb radiation and convert it into chemical energy for growth.

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eK8n TIL South African Department of Health Distributed 44 million condoms, stapling each one to instruction cards written in the country’s 11 official languages.
698XW TIL of Matthew Hopkins. A witch hunter who (Along with his colleague John Stearne) put so many people on trial for witchcraft that they beat out every witch Hunter of the last 160 years and single-handedly spiked executions from 1644 to 1647. Over 300 women.
wLlgM TIL the French government didn't admit to its complicity in the Holocaust until 1995, i.e. 40 years after the Nazis were defeated.
P1pAJ TIL Ingmar Bergman and Ingrid Bergman are not husband and wife nor brother and sister nor related at all
woYKo TIL in 1979 the CIA used Psychics specializing in a technique call "remote viewing" to gather information on hostages in Iran.