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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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nWm0d TIL - Proton-enhanced nuclear induction spectroscopy (PENIS), also sometimes called Cross Polarisation (CP), is a nuclear magnetic resonance technique invented by Michael Gibby and Alexander Pines while they were graduate students
1aDXW TIL All Arabic numerals were invented in India, not just the zero. (6:05)
4k9bN TIL that Australia voted to add a constitutional age limit of 70 for all judges in federal courts, in 1977
BnJk TIL a Survey of U.S. States Found More Mentally Ill Persons Are in Jails and Prisons Than Hospitals
b61Wp TIL that in the 1980's South Africa secretly developed six nukes. Before handing over authority to the post apartheid government the nukes were dismantled making South Africa the first state in the world which voluntarily gave up all nuclear arms it had developed itself