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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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X0px8 TIL there is a Danish children's animated series about a middle-aged man with an extremely long prehensile penis.
Gyr7 TIL that Iceland has the oldest existing parliamentary system in the world. It is over 1000 years old.
Oo4We TIL: Keanu Reeves is a classically trained ballroom dancer.
gMQbL TIL After bragging to fellow insurgents about shooting down a Chinook with an RPG which killed 38 US and Afghan army personnel, US intelligence traced and tracked the individual before dropping four 500lb bombs on his truck and following up with attacks by a C-130 gunship and Apache helicopters
vPjlx TIL that American milk is pasteurized using a high-temperature short-time pasteurization, that gives a shelf life of 7 to 10 days. Europe however, uses an ultra-high-heat pasteurization which results in about a 3 month shelf life.