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TIL How double rainbows are formed

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R7mw4 TIL in 1954 the obninsk nuclear power plant near Moscow was connected to the electrical grid, becoming the world's first nuclear power plant to produce electricity industrially.
mx8Ap TIL a British woman holds the world record for longest sneezing fit ever recorded. Donna Griffiths started sneezing on January 13th,1981 and didn't stop until September 16th, 1983(997th day). It's estimated she sneezed 1 million times in the first 365 days.
165xV TIL of Maurice Tillet, The Wrestler Who May Have Inspired Shrek
woeG7 TIL – Looking at the rocks lower left of the famous portrait depicting Napoléon's crossing of the Alps by Jacques-Louis David, it is seen that the names of Hannibal and Charlemagne, who had previously crossed the Alps, were engraved.
6PAZ TIL that Kurt Vonnegut has said that the only reason to use a semicolon is “to show you’ve been to college.”