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TIL that the Chernobyl nuclear power plant was still operational and producing power up until 2000, a full 14 after the infamous reactor 4 meltdown

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loajK TIL Gene Roddenberry was reluctant to include a Klingon in TNG. Worf wasn't even mentioned in the writer's guide. When Worf was finally added to the crew, he was intended to have a minor role. Gradually, Worf became more important to the story and soon became one of the main characters on the show.
KOn6B TIL Cyprus was going to host the first particle accelerator in the Middle East, but ministers chose to spend the money on hosting the Miss Universe pageant instead.
lo01K TIL about Conflict Kitchen, a take-out restaurant in Pittsburgh that serves only ethnic food from countries which the United states is in conflict with
yQ19e TIL after Portuguese explorers completed the first sea route to India in 1498 and disembarked in Calicut, the first people they met were two Spanish-speaking Tunisian merchants who said: "The Devil take you! What brought you here?". They responded: "We came in search of Christians and of spices".
X07O6 TIL that Nintendo invented a new type of flower to promote Pikmin, their game about plant-like aliens, back in 2002