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TIL in spite of it’s famous meltdown of reactor #4 in 1986, and a fire in 1991, Chernobyl continued to operate until 2000

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7Xjb TIL the famous ‘risky selfie girl’, Russian girl Xenia Ignatyeva, who used to take selfies on top of high buildings and in other dangerous places with her boyfriend, actually died doing this. In 2014, she fell off a roof and landed on a live cable and got electrocuted to death.
vbwD TIL that when the number 40 appears in the Bible, it doesn’t literally mean 40, but rather it just means “a lot”
p8EGQ TIL toilet paper originated in China around AD 589 but was not commercially packaged until 1857 by New York entrepreneur Joseph Gayetty. It was marketed as “The greatest necessity of the age!”
JdPl TIL Hitler used the slaughtering of Native Americans as the inspiration for concentration camps.
gMlDy TIL In 1944, a Finnish soldier escaping the Russian Army took 30x the dosage of methamphetamines designed to keep soldiers awake. He managed to ski 250 miles surviving on only a raw bird and some pine buds, and when he got to hospital a week later his heart rate was 200BPM.