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TIL during the Chernobyl, three engineers volunteered to dive into a pool of radioactive hydrogen peroxide with no working flashlights and open a pipe to stop the reactor from exploding. They succeeded.

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ol9L TIL of the Bagger 293, the biggest vehicle in the world. It is an excavator that is 315 feet tall, 740 feet long, and weighs over 31 million pounds.
mx4bP TIL that a locked up, solar powered satellite computer was successfully turned off and on again by changing its trajectory to pass through the shadow of the moon
Y7GGZ TIL that Mozart died in 1791, leaving his ‘Requiem in D minor’ unfinished. His student, Franz Xaver Süssmayr, completed the work using Mozart’s sketches, creating the version most widely performed today.
BkMe TIL a century ago women were very involved in the movie industry in key positions. Half of all the films copyrighted in between 1911 and 1925 were written by women and during the twenties a quarter of the screenwriters were women
781n7 TIL that there is a Goldfish breed so rare that is considered a cryptid. The Meteor Goldfish.