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TIL that Eminem's mother created a rap CD called "Set The Record Straight" directed at her son in response to Eminem's many disparaging lyrics about her

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4XLAa TIL that although the Chernobyl nuclear-power-plant had a meltdown in 1986 and had rendered the land around it uninhabitable, the remaining reactors of the facility remained in normal operation and generated power until 2000.
olP7 TIL: Later in his life, Voltaire developed the habit of living near borders so he could more easily escape the authorities if his writings angered them
v11aB TIL Scientist Anatoli Petrovich Bugorski survived being shot in the face by a particle accelerator beam
x6EPg TIL: There is a real life "Death Note", where Japanese women wish how and why they want their spouse’s to die.
1aLvP TIL a rat broke into an ATM machine and ate/destroyed over $17,500 (USD) of cash.