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TIL: There’s a toxic waste plant that displays a warning to warn people far in the future of its danger

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YnJB TIL if Finding Nemo was real, when Nemo’s mum and siblings got eaten, Nemo’s dad would have developed female gonads and formed a breeding pair with Nemo.
ADpLo TIL of the Wifatch computer virus, that instead of installing malicious software actively protects infected units from attack.
9Yw4B TIL that after Michael Jordan retired in 2003, The Miami Heat retired the number 23 jersey even though Jordan never played for the team.
wLW9Y TIL In 1982, Heinz-Josef Große, a 34 year old East German construction worker at the Inner German border attempted to escape with the help of his backhoe. He breached various obstacles including the border fence only to be cut down halfway up a hill just several feet/meters from West German soil.
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