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TIL Pripyat amusement park never officially opened and was to open just five days after the disaster

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m1Gno Today I learned that it is illegal to sell rulers with only inches on them in Japan
vDG7 TIL in the 12th Century, two children appeared in Woolpit, England with bright green skin. Neither of the children were ever formally identified.
6gYJ TIL that in the 1920’s french scientists found and ate a frozen Mammoth
XKxE TIL that a Russian man who tried to rob a hair salon ended up as the victim when the female shop owner overpowered him, tied him up naked and then used him as a sex slave for 3 days.
MQP0 TIL in 1993 the NSA was almost successful requiring a chip in all communication devices that would essentially outlaw public key encryptions and give them a backdoor to… everything.