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TIL that since the Chernobyl disaster, the area inside the ‘exclusion zone’ has become home to hundreds of wild animals such as deer, owls, boars, bears and beavers.

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wlDE TIL that in Ohio a cemetery has giant stone sphere that slowly rotates and no one knows why.
PrdG TIL of Ming the Clam that, when discovered, it was the oldest living animal ever discovered…until the Scientists observing the clam killed it.
wlwJ TIL Japan’s oldest business, temple builder Kongo Gumi, in operation under the founders’ descendants since AD 578, went out of business in 2006.
PYvOn TIL It took more than 70 years to complete the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. Originally, the Philological Society predicted that the dictionary would take about 10 years to complete. Twenty-seven years later, the editors had successfully reached the word ant.
5V1OR TIL that the majority(64%) of passengers and crew onboard the Hindenburg survived the inferno. It fell gently and many were able to jump out and run away. (Also, The deadliest airship disaster was a actually a helium airship - the uss akron)