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TIL: Reddit received $50 million in funding the weekend after it banned r/TheFappening

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1por TIL The version of Anne Frank’s diary we read in school is edited. The unedited version includes complaints about her father and her thoughts on exploring her own body (NSFW)
b60l9 TIL that, even 35 years after the disaster, Chernobyl will be habitable again in about 20,000 years. Visiting is now considered safe, but there are still risks associated with touring due to the structural instability of the ruins.
aeb TIL a man with an unusually tiny brain managed to live a very normal life
OoLmX TIL: An extinct bird came back from the dead. The white-throated rail was flightless and got completely wiped out when the island sunk below the sea around 136,000 years ago. But, the same bird re-appeared when sea levels fell again a few thousand years later, and again lost the ability to fly.
oRrdr TIL that a hanging Munchkin on The Wizard of Oz set is a myth