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TIL the first victim of the Chernobyl disaster was Valery Khodemchuk who died as the reactor exploded, his body was never found and is entombed in the wreckage of the Chernobyl power plant

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n15W TIL according to Worker’s Comp, the average maximum compensation for an arm in the US is $169,878. For a leg, it’s $153,221. So if something costs “an arm and a leg,” it comes to a total of $323,099.
7rxB7 TIL of the 19th amendment ratification flag, which was displayed 100 years ago this August 18th to commemorate the day women were given the right to vote. A star was added to the flag each time one of the required 36 states voted to ratify.
69yoQ TIL - The tallest mountain in the World is Not Everest
lp8G TIL that during the Battle of the Nile in 1798, the French naval officer Du Petit Thouars, having lost both legs and an arm, continued to command from a bucket filled with wheat, until he died.
ARPa TIL The Asylum, creators of “mockbusters” such as Sharknado, Titanic II, Mega Shark Versus Mecha Shark and Transmorphers have never lost money on a film