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TIL in 2011 a small team of Japanese Firefighters saved Tokyo from being uninhabitable for decades by bravely keeping spent fuel rods cooled and unexposed

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Y7ggP TIL Bangkok's full Thai name is Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Ayuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Piman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit
EgMKW TIL Greek poet K.Karyotakis spend 10 hours trying to commit suicide by drowning at sea before giving up and deciding to shoot himself. His suicide note ends with a humorous advice to never try and drown yourself if you're a swimmer, and a promise to write down the "impressions of a drowning man"
w1l6 TIL King James IV put twin babies on an island to see if the children would speak the language of Eden. Children developed a communication method but the experiment failed because no one else knew what language of Eden sounded like.
OG8Na TIL: Julia Agripppina of Rome was the mother of Nero and orchestrated his rise to power through poison and politics. However, she lost her influence over him and he forced her out of the palace, stripped her powers and bodyguards, sent people to annoy her, and in 3 different accounts, killed her.
yVb5a TIL that Subbotnik is a day in Russia when people in many cities volunteer to clean the streets, a tradition that began after the Russian Revolution and persists today.