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TIL that the "Elephant's Foot" in Chernobyl was found to be impervious to a drill, but was able to be damaged by an AK-47 using armor-piercing rounds

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6EwaX TIL that Japan has vending machines that dispense used women’s underwear, puppies, slushees, and other very unique items.
xXw7 TIL The “magic number” of people needed to create a viable population for multi-generational space travel has been calculated to about the size of a small village - 160.
xVRkw Today I learned that after gaining independence from France, Haiti was later forced to pay reparations to former slave owners
KOjjG TIL in Aliens (1986), Bill Paxton improvised Hudson's famous line "Game over man! Game over!" during a rehearsal, and James Cameron told him to keep it in.
dJV9 TIL Otis Redding’s “(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay” was recorded just two days before Redding died in a plane crash. The iconic whistling at the end of the track was the result of Redding forgetting the lyrics he had written for that part.