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TIL Moscow did not cancel May Parade in Kiev just 4 days after Chernobyl meltdown. Empty reviewing stands prove that even the local party leaders knew the danger, but let the unsuspecting ordinary people absorb the radiation

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VMKnB TIL about Henry Rathbone, the military officer who was sitting next to Lincoln when he was assassinated. He was wracked with guilt over his perceived failure to stop the assassination and slowly went insane. He later murdered his wife in a fit of madness and spent the rest of his days in an asylum
6KKl TIL there is a 42% decrease in air quality throughout the US on 4th July as a result of firework displays
yPnJ TIL the average citizen of Liechtenstein doesn’t even lock their door because crime in the country is so low. The last murder was 10 years ago (as of 2007).
yEVw TIL of Green Run - a secret Air Force experiment that released Hanford’s largest single dose of radioactive iodine-131. Scientists let 7,000-12,000 curies into the air, traveling as far as 200 miles. For scale, Three Mile Island released an estimated 15-24 curies, Chernobyl 35-49 million curies
D1Xdr TIL of the John Frum movement; a cargo cult on the island of Tanna, Vanuatu. Said to have originated in the 1930s following a vision of a Western figure promising prosperity, it gained traction in the early 1940s when 300,000 US troops were stationed in the area. This meant huge amounts of supplies.