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TIL Ten days after the Chernobyl disaster, further risk of massive thermal explosion was identified, then three men known as “The Chernobyl divers” volunteered to swim through pooled water under leaked reactor to find and release the safety valves. They died few days later due to radiation exposure

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eprmn TIL that Harry S. Truman was the last U.S. president to serve without a college degree. Although he briefly attended Spalding’s Commercial College and University of Missouri–Kansas City, he never earned a formal degree.
7KnL TIL: Navajo Nation is the largest Native American territory in the United States. They have their own Constitution, with a Judiciary, Legislative, and Executive Branch. If compared to the size of other states, it would be the 42 largest state:
grme7 TIL when Guns N’ Roses were making the song “Sweet Child o' Mine”, producer Spencer Proffer suggested adding a breakdown at the song’s end. The band agreed, but were not sure what to add. Axl Rose then started saying to himself, "where do we go? where do we go now?” And thus, the breakdown was born.
nWr1P TIL David Bowie had the first version of My Way, later sung by Frank Sinatra.
8adBa TIL the CIA paid magician John Mulholland $3,000 to write a spy manual of trickery and deception as part of the top-secret MKUltra project, a CIA program that investigated mind control. Mulholland’s 1953 guide was supposed to be destroyed in the 1970s but an archived copy reappeared decades later.