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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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4WAX TIL: broccoli has nearly twice the vitamin C of oranges by weight
Br7lx TIL that, if nobody was overweight, we could support 111 million more people without increasing energy production
OoNGe Today I learned that the Or logic gate is essentially the And logic gate
vGL4 TIL quicksand scenes appeared in 3% of all movies in the 1960s, but claims of REAL human deaths by quicksand are nonexistant or poorly supported. (more in comments)
JYO1V TIL that religion was a controversial topic in the 1960 election, with JFK as the first Catholic candidate (still the only Catholic US President to date) against Protestant Nixon, due to the anti-Catholic sentiment at the time.