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TIL fungi that feed on radiation have developed in the Chernobyl area.

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0A9R TIL a study was released in 2007 which emphasized that Generation X’s men made less (by 12%) than their fathers had at that same age in 1974, thus reversing a historical trend.
RoPQ TIL that runners wearing top-of-the-line trainers are 123 per cent more likely to get injured than runners in cheap ones. This was discovered as far back as 1989, according to a study led by Dr Bernard Marti, the leading preventative-medicine specialist at Switzerland’s University of Bern
loKQ5 TIL in 2014, an 89 year old WW2 veteran, Bernard Shaw went missing from his nursing home. It turned out that he went to Normandy for the 70th anniversary of D-Day landings against the nursing home's orders. He left the home wearing a grey mack concealing the war medals on his jacket.
16gK8 TIL, in 1998 it took several days to bring down a rogue 25-story tall Canadian weather balloon even after two F-16s fired more than 1,000 rounds of cannon shells into it. The balloon had severe impact on trans-Atlantic air traffic as airliners were forced to divert from their projected flight paths
GAJx4 TIL the 9/11 rescue dogs became so depressed finding only dead bodies, rescue workers had to stage fake rescues to boost their morale