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TIL about the Nordic Model

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OoW6X TIL of Hisashi Ouchi, a victim of a 1999 Japanese nuclear plant disaster. Radiation burns caused him to have nearly zero white blood cells. Despite his pleas, he was kept alive for research purposes. After 83 days in the hospital, he died of organ failure.
JYMWm TIL the depiction of Jesus as fair skinned, with fair hair and beard and light colored eyes comes from the Letter of Lentulus. Lentulus falsely claimed to be governor over Judea while Jesus was alive, and made up the description to impress a friend.
DQNQV TIL Johny Depp began developing a Dr. Seuss film biopic in 2011 but the project stalled. In 2018, Stephen Chbosky became director for a film about young Seuss' life as a struggling writer in the 1920s prior to meeting his future wife Helen Palmer
OoEQY TIL in 1988 the Soviet government issued a decree preventing doctors from listing radiation as an illness or cause of death 2 years after the Chernobyl disaster
epRRg TIL about the Hiller Flying Platform, a 1950s hoverboard.