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TIL Henry Kissinger invested $6million into Elizabeth Holmes' Theranos scheme

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4XKZR TIL in one of hundreds of his dangerous visits to the Chernobyl disaster site, nuclear inspector Artur Korneyev was able to take a photo of himself in 1996 near the Elephant Foot, a radioactive mass that initially gave off more than 10,000 roentgens an hour
oB7BA TIL that in 1874 the "American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals" brought the attention to child abuse because there were no rights for protecting children. The case of Mary Ellen.
X0aYD TIL Virginia Woolf, Horace de Vere Cole and others pretended to be the Prince of Abyssinia and his entourage. They obtained permission to visit the HMS Dreadnought. It was reported that each time the Commander showed them a marvel of the ship, they murmured the phrase "bunga, bunga!"
XA0r TIL enough cheese was produced in 2011 to give each person on Earth 3 kg of cheese.
e001k The journey of Orient Express from Paris to Istanbul lasted a little over 80 hours.