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TIL Before Chernobyl, the Soviets had another massive nuclear disaster which contaminated over 20,000 square km. The area was turned into a preserve to cover up the accident. The CIA knew of the accident, but also covered it up in order to protect the fledgling US nuclear industry from hysteria.

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ZpeGD TIL why Californians (especially in SoCal) refer to their freeways as "the (highway)" (eg. "the 5", "the 101", etc.)
dDavd TIL that Adidas is actually named after it's owner Adolf Dassler, who created sport shoes along with his brother. Both Adolf and his brother joined the Nazi party in 1933.
NVDb TIL the average triangle player in an orchestra makes $56,000 dollars a year.
Me46a TIL that Harry Connick Jr’s father, Henry Connick, unseated New Orleans DA Jim Garrison. Garrison famously was the only DA to bring anyone to trial for JFK’s assassination and was the focus of Oliver Stone’s film JFK.
RbM1 TIL that a secret message was engraved inside Lincoln’s pocketwatch by a jeweler, and it was not discovered until 2009.