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TIL - Finding Nemo is the best-selling DVD of all time.

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l7PMV TIL Between 1967 and 1990, there were two states called "Yemen". "South Yemen" was more northerly than "North Yemen". It was also situated to the east.
Ypw8B TIL during the Chernobyl meltdown, it was feared that molten fuel (corium) would reach flooded areas and explode. Three engineers tried to prevent this, but corium dopped into the water before they arrived. The fuel then cooled into a ceramic pumice and floated around the room, instead of exploding.
9gAm TIL there is a “suicide forest” that has absolutely no animal life, where neither GPS nor a compass will work. 100’s of dead bodies are pulled out every year
YKaG TIL at an Amazon warehouse in PA, during hot summers the company would station paramedics outside to carry away fainting employees, instead of paying for A/C
ANR77 TIL Pope Alexander VI had not 6, but 9 children