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TIL out of the 3 volunteers who went in 1986 on a suicide mission to open the valves of the pool at the Chernobyl plant 2 are actually still alive

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LPGd TIL the Tarzan Yell is trademarked (officially known as a Sensory Mark). “The mark is a yell consisting of a series of approximately ten sounds…” It takes over 200 words to technically describe how Tarzan yells.
GPDj TIL that 75% of the US’s oil comes from North and South America, not the Middle East.
6LaX TIL that it snows metal on Venus
kJxnE TIL Evel Knievel holds the world record for most bones broken in a human body, at a staggering 433.
PmjE TIL The people of Melanesia independently developed a recessive gene for blond hair. This is distinct from the blond hair gene found in Western populations