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TIL during the meltdown, Chernobyl electrician Oleksander Lelechenko saved his younger colleagues from radiation exposure by walking through radioactive water three times to effect emergency repairs alone. He died in Kiev hospital less than 2 weeks after the disaster

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6r88 TIL that when Benjamin Franklin died in 1790, he willed the cities of Boston and Philadelphia $4,400 each, but with the stipulation that the money could not be spent for 200 years. By 1990 Boston’s trust was worth over $5 million.
8adaX TIL because Tarzan wears only a loincloth, the Disney animators working on the character had to study animal and human musculature to animate him, making him the first Disney character to actually be animated with working muscles.
9YE9m TIL in 1990 rap group 2 Live Crew’s album “As Nasty As They Wanna Be” was ruled obscene by a Florida judge and was subsequently banned. Record store owners and employees were arrested for selling the album.
4Xn5R TIL about the Lady in white aka Perla Siedle Gibson from South Africa who would stand at the port and sing for the servicemen as their ships sailed in and out of Durban during WW2 and beyond. She was a true inspiration and motivation for hundreds of thousands of soldiers and became famous for it.
Z8wlG TIL In 1996 Metallica was told by MTV that they couldn't use profanity or pyro during the MTV Music Awards. So instead of playing what they were told to, they played Last Caress by The Misfits and Metallica was banned from MTV Europe.