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TIL because, 30 years after the meltdown, radiation makes farming and forestry too dangerous in the area, Ukraine is working on plans to turn the Chernobyl zone into a massive solar farm.

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wL96o TIL the gift shop inside the 45-foot-high steel and concrete Brontosaur at the world famous Cabazon Dinosaur roadside attraction in Cabazon, California now features a creationist museum and sells merchandise that promotes young earth creationism after it was sold to the current owners.
nee79 TIL Marlon Brando was the last person to reject a winning Oscar award (1973 best actor for The Godfather). He did it to protest the film industry's poor treatment of Native Americans. When a young Native American woman gave her speech in Brando's place, part of the crowd booed.
VMQkp TIL during Richard Ramirez’s murder spree, after it was revealed that shoe prints from Los Angeles crime scenes matched one in San Francisco, San Francisco’s then mayor revealed the information on TV. This enraged police as they knew Ramirez would see it and thus destroy evidence. Which he did.
ne0MP TIL McDonalds did away with their spoon-shaped coffee stirrers because people were using them as cocaine spoons
9Qe6 TIL that the Quality Cafe is one of the most recycled sets in all of Hollywood, and shut down in 2006 to solely become a movie set.