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TIL Somali novelist Nuruddin Farah has garnered acclaim as one of the greatest contemporary writers in the world. Farah was warned that the Somali government planned to arrest him, so he began a self-imposed exile that would last for 22 years

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awk1L TIL that the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant generated electricity until December 2000, when reactor 3 was finally shut down.
LkV7m TIL while animating Ratatouille, a Pixar employee jumped into a pool while wearing a chef’s outfit and hat to determine how it would cling to a character’s body and what parts would become translucent.
PLPw TIL the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office failed to investigate more than 400 sex crimes, at least 32 child molestations and the rape of a 13 year old girl who became pregnant by her uncle.
VMprp TIL of Albert Stevens, who in 1945 was misdiagnosed as having terminal cancer and injected with plutonium isotopes as part of a radiation experiment. He survived exposure to the highest known radiation dose in any human and lived for another 20 years.
vPaRB TIL Brontosaurus is a valid dinosaur again. As of 2015 it is no longer considered to be the same species as Apatosaurus.