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TIL that the vehicles that rescued people from the Chernobyl disaster are now stored in a remote radioactive vehicle graveyard

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XbpP TIL about thirteen-year-old Yoko Moriwaki the “Japanese Anne Frank,” who kept a diary about her life during WWII. She was killed by the atomic bomb in her home town of Hiroshima and her diary was later published by her brother.
WeB8 TIL an internet service provider in the UK is compliant with xkcd comic #806, meaning they will transfer your call to a higher-level rep if you say “shibboleet.”
R7ryQ TIL: Doctors in Italy fabricated a fake disease to fool the Nazis into avoiding local Jews. They brought them to the Hospital and called it Syndrome K (named after Nazi commander), warning soldiers that it was extremely contagious.
vQM8 TIL that without the composer’s knowledge, Gene Roddenberry wrote lyrics to the original Star Trek theme in order to claim a 50% share of the music’s performance royalties
yVg9l TIL In the oldest surviving law code, some of the laws include: "If a man knocks out the eye of another man, he shall weigh out half a mina of silver." and "If a man has cut off another man's foot, he is to pay ten shekels."