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TIL in 1988 the Soviet government issued a decree preventing doctors from listing radiation as an illness or cause of death 2 years after the Chernobyl disaster

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xV6O1 TIL according to North Korea unicorns exist and there is a grave near a temple in Pyongyang
BgZmW TIL in 2009 Burger King ran the "Whopper sacrifice" campaign, which gave a free whopper to anyone who deleted 10 friends on Facebook. Facebook suspended the program because Burger King was alerting people letting them know they'd been dropped for a sandwich
XEJ8X TIL that Anonymous sent thousands of all-black faxes to the Church of Scientology to deplete all their ink cartridges.
O9QL TIL of a British Marine who flung himself back-first onto a grenade to save his comrades. Though the explosion threw him in the air, his rucksack absorbed the blast and he walked away with a nosebleed and a headache
KO8P6 TIL Tiririca, a Brazilian Clown, who used slogans including "What does a federal congressman do? I really don't know – but if you vote for me, I'll tell ya" and "It can't get any worse, vote Tiririca". He became the second-most-voted congressman in Brazil's history, with 1,348,295 votes.