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TIL that the oldest known Earth rock was discovered in 2019... embedded in a boulder brought back from the moon by Apollo 14. It is the first discovered meteorite from Earth.

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4XKZR TIL in one of hundreds of his dangerous visits to the Chernobyl disaster site, nuclear inspector Artur Korneyev was able to take a photo of himself in 1996 near the Elephant Foot, a radioactive mass that initially gave off more than 10,000 roentgens an hour
nWevW TIL in the 1960s the US government dug a mile-deep hole in the ground and dropped a 40-kiloton atomic bomb in it, to release natural gas. It worked, but the gas was too radioactive to use, and the project was abandoned.
JYVGk TIL that New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner once considered selling the team to James Dolan, owner of the New York Knicks
lbRA TIL that the original X-Men Movie from 2000 is widely credited with paving the way for the modern Superhero Movie Genre we have today.
QNZvX TIL about the 1998 Cavalese cable car crash. 20 people in a cable car were killed by US pilots flying too low. They were found not guilty, but later dismissed for having destroyed evidence.