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TIL the 3 reactors that melted down at Fukushima in 2011 were built in the 1960s and early 70s, and were actually older than the reactors at Chernobyl and Three Mile Island

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jMdN TIL The actress who played “Buffy” on the show 1960’s show Family Affair died of a drug overdose; one of the most severe the coroner had ever seen
e0egE TIL Stan Lee was planning on changing careers when he was assigned to come up with a new superhero team. Since he had nothing to lose, he experimented with stories he preferred. This resulted in co-creating Fantastic Four, Hulk, Iron Man, Spider-Man, X-Men, Thor, Doctor Strange, Daredevil, Avengers.
wQ1o TIL that Charlie Chaplin was one of Hitler’s favorite comedians, and despite the mockery against him in the Chaplin film The Great Dictator, Hitler had it screened twice in his private theater.
kOrvW TIL Not many babies are born during the graduate-student years. More than two-thirds of women in a doctoral survey agreed that the ages between 28 and 34 would be the optimal time to have a first child—the very years in which they are struggling to obtain a Ph.D