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TIL the same high school was used for shooting both Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Beverly Hills, 90210.

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epnAD TIL radiation exposures during the Chernobyl disaster were as high as 16 Sv (sieverts), three times the lethal LD50 dose of 4.8 Sv. A human near a breach of the ITER fusion reactor's containment vessel would be exposed to 2000 Sv every second.
wrd1 TIL of a woman who had a phantom itch so persistent and severe in her scalp that she scratched through her skull while she slept, damaging her brain.
wexM TIL each Disney film is avail to buy for limited time and then put “in the vault”. It is done to keep films fresh. Side effect is that DVDs become collectibles and parents have to pay excessive amounts for films which also increases piracy.
RRyw TIL that someone created a mathematical world (similar to Wonderland from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland) called the Garden of Cosmic Speculation. It’s only open to the public one day a year.
XEaND TIL that the earliest documented alternate history scenario was written in the 1st century BC by the Roman Historian Titus Livius. The scenario included Alexander the Great surviving long enough to invade Europe and end up fighting against and losing to Rome.