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TIL that the Chernobyl Power Plant continued operating and producing electricity until 2000, 14 years after the Chernobyl disaster.

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dLeK TIL of Patrick Combs, a man who cashed an obviously fake joke check for $95,000. The bank didn’t notice and gave him the money.
XXZ6 TIL that police broke up a Lego heist ring last year for stealing $40,000 worth of bricks and found that one of the suspects was also in possession of another $160,000 of bricks—18 pallets worth.
D1GJ TIL that VLC has a keyboard shortcut that lets you fix out of sync audio. Best feature ever.
WQe4 TIL the story about ‘Unsinkable Sam’ - a German WW2 ship cat who served on three different war ships. All three sank during the war and Sam survived…
kO5b5 TIL The 1939 classic Gone with the Wind was the highest grossing movie in history until the Sound of Music broke the box office record in 1966. When Gone with the Wind was re-released in 1971 it regained the top spot until The Godfather sent it to "sleep with the fishes" the next year.