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

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5yW9 TIL that 1st generation immigrants’ children are less likely to commit crime than natives and 2nd generation children
rNWnd TIL why the pool tables in Michael Jackson's Beat It video have no pockets. It's because the tables shown are used for a pocketless game called carom billiards.
PYLJ TIL during the Chernobyl, three engineers volunteered to dive into a pool of radioactive hydrogen peroxide with no working flashlights and open a pipe to stop the reactor from exploding. They succeeded.
wL8B7 TIL that while the fictional Jon Snow knew nothing, the microbiologist John Snow traced the outbreak of cholera to Soho, London, in 1854, and inspired the overhaul of waste management systems around the world.
oRNGo TIL Scientists study hibernating bears to understand their physiology to improve treatments for osteoporosis, muscle loss (from aging or cancer), diabetes, and/or inducing a near hibernation state for human space travel.