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TIL over 75% of Visually Impaired Americans are Unemployed

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rR6jo TIL The Soviet Union did not admit that a reactor had exploded at Chernobyl until nearly three days after radiation from the disaster set off alarms at a nuclear plant in Sweden 1000 km away
RJyl TIL CIA director John McCone told RFK he believed there were TWO shooters that assassinated his brother JFK.
5VPVn TIL that in 2011, astronomers discovered the largest and farthest reservoir of water ever detected in the universe. The water, equivalent to 140 trillion times all the water on Earth, surrounds a huge black hole more than 12 billion light-years away.
781eZ TIL Vice President Andrew Johnson gave his inaugural address while drunk
7rMOx TIL that Volvo gave away the 1962 patent for their revolutionary three-point seat belt for free, in order to save lives.