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TIL after the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, the remaining three reactors continued operations, with the last reactor having been shut down in 2000.

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Qa6L TIL you are legally within your rights to call a cop a “fucking asshole” under a 1985 ruling of the California Court of Appeals
16xoP TIL that there is a fictional character who is an official member of the German parliament
XElEj TIL Tom Clancy wrote his 1st book 'The Hunt for Red October' in 1982 and hoped to sell 5,000 copies but ended up selling 45,000 copies. The book received praised from Ronald Reagan leading to a further 300,000 hardcover & 2 million paperback copies sold.
Z89ZD TIL the pinching force of "29 coconut crabs collected from the northern part of Okinawa Island" in Japan "ranged from 29.4 to 1765.2 N." "During our field study," write the researchers, "obtaining data for analysis was challenging, as the large claws of this crab pinched us on multiple occasions."
p89Oe TIL that until 2002, six-day school weeks were the norm in Japan.