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TIL that Oprah's real name is "Orpah"

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5YnlP TIL that when serial-killer Carl Panzram was asked if he had any last words before he would hang he replied "Yes, hurry it up, you Hoosier bastard! I could kill a dozen men while you're screwing around!"
4XLAa TIL that although the Chernobyl nuclear-power-plant had a meltdown in 1986 and had rendered the land around it uninhabitable, the remaining reactors of the facility remained in normal operation and generated power until 2000.
l7D7A TIL Leon Theremin, the inventor of the theremin, the instrument that makes eerie sounds and is played without being touched, also invented a device which is considered a predecessor of the RFID technology
KDkR TIL Both abstainers and heavy drinkers showed an increased mortality of about 50% over moderate drinkers
PNwJ TIL cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev launched into space as a Soviet citizen, but returned to earth as a Russian citizen - he was in orbit when the Soviet Union dissolved on December 26, 1991.