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TIL Young men in Ukraine had the choice between two years of army service or two minutes of cleaning debris off of the Chernobyl station. Many chose the two minutes and most of them are now dead.

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b6OLj TIL The famous musician Sir Paul McCartney can neither read or write music
QJNvL TIL that crawfish don’t have brains. What people actually suck out their heads is a the hepatopancreas, which is similar to eating foie gras
m1ray TIL scientists implant false memories in mice while they sleep to influence their behavior when they wake up
R7GP1 TIL There are more skyscrapers in New York City than all of Europe combined. NYC has 290, Europe has 218.
ADny4 TIL the real-life inspiration for "The Americans" was not Cold War spies, but 10 Russian deep-cover agents captured in 2010; but the show creator was unimpressed by the public's lukewarm reaction to the case, and figured the story would make for better TV if set in the Cold War.