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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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awnQo TIL child sex trafficking has monetarily surpassed the illegal sale of arms in the US.
wo4RP TIL I learned that 4th-century Chinese poet Su Hui wrote The Star Gauge, the most elaborate palindromic poem in history, dedicating it to her husband. Consisting of a 29x29 grid of 841 characters, it can be read in many directions and patterns to form more than 3,000 shorter rhyming poems.
X0oX8 TIL that puttanesca means whore
RGl8 TIL Nixon’s minions planned to murder a reporter critical of his administration
gMoeX TIL that matches weren't invented until 1826. As John Walker stirred a pot of chemicals, a lump formed on the end of the mixing stick. He tried scraping the dried chemicals off, igniting the stick and accidentally inventing matches.