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TIL as recently as 2014, almost 30 years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, 1 in 3 wild boars in Germany are still too radioactive for humans to consume. In fact, some are more than 15 times the legal limit and the contamination is thought to originate nearly 700 miles away.

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