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TIL that Mikhail Gorbachev, the man who oversaw the dismantling of the USSR, has said that the Chernobyl explosion was “perhaps the real cause of the collapse of the Soviet Union.”

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rGL1 TIL That there is a desk full of candy at the entrance to the US Senate Floor.