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TIL a mysterious young woman known only as “Bionerd23” has spent the last couple of years wandering around the destroyed nuclear plant at Chernobyl, ignoring the radiation danger and occasionally eating radioactive apples. Despite her dozens of YouTube videos, no one seems to know who she is.

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16GRO TIL In the 21 World Cup tournaments held, 79 nations have appeared at least once. Of these, 13 have made it to the final match, and only eight have won.
Zwgo TIL in 1979 a large number of Swedish people were calling sick with a ‘case of being homosexual’ as protest to homosexuality being labeled an illness
LkxZr TIL A mysterious 10-12kg (22-26lbs) icy ball fell into an Indian village. Some villagers thought it was an extra-terrestrial object. There were reports of villagers taking pieces home to put in their refrigerators. They found it was more likely to be frozen human faeces leaked from a plane overhead.
R5knj TIL that Bosnia and Herzegovina only uses the letters A, E, O, J, K, M and T in its vehicle registration plates because it uses both the Latin and Cyrillic alphabets, and these letters are written and pronounced identically in both. The same plates can therefore be used in every region.
lwP7 TIL that in the UK, top lager companies remove and readd specific minerals to the water used in their brewing process - so that the taste of their beer is consistent. This is why locally brewed beers vary in taste depending on where you are in the country.