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TIL Chernobyl wasn't the first Russian Nuclear disaster. They also had the Kyshtym disaster in 1957

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VMOk4 TIL Somali novelist Nuruddin Farah has garnered acclaim as one of the greatest contemporary writers in the world. Farah was warned that the Somali government planned to arrest him, so he began a self-imposed exile that would last for 22 years
bakE TIL the average member of the U.S. Congress makes $174,000 per year and its been that way since 2009
5YGvD TIL Washington Redskins owner Daniel Snyder took over Six Flags in 2005 and cancelled Mr Six, the dancing old man mascot, the next day. The company went bankrupt in 2009.
e06b TIL that when a mother wrote to Marvel that her deaf 4yo son won’t wear his hearing aid on account that superheroes don’t have to, Marvel replied with a custom comic in which Hawkeye is deaf, and uses hearing aids.
051p TIL There is almost an entire continent submerged under water