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TIL that Chernobyl firefighter Vladimir Pravik's eyes are believed to have changed from brown to blue due to the radiation exposure

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ydOl TIL that the British war hero Admiral Nelson was taken back to England (from the Battle of Trafalgar) in a coffin made from the mast of a French ship he had sunk
BrYPr TIL that the 1989 rap album: As Nasty As They Wanna Be, resulted in a court case where the federal government wanted to censor the music on the album due to its obscenity, had they won, the precedent set would have made Hip-Hop artists lose the right to their freedom of speech.
GYZa1 TIL Libyan leader Gaddafi spoke a dialect of Arabic that was hard for other Arabs to understand and often spoke for hours without notes by saying the first thing that came into his head. He once spoke at the London School of Oriental and African Studies by direct satellite and was 90% unintelligible
mN8O TIL Twin brothers in Germany built a 150 square meter model airport with over 100 autonomous moving vehicles at a cost of $4.8 million
x6Bko TIL Michael Jackson only agreed to 10 shows for his "This is It" concert series but his managers went ahead and increased it to 50. His father Joe Jackson was concerned from the beginning that promoters were pushing Michael too hard, resulting in his death