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TIL- The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant which suffered a reactor melt down in 1986, continued to produce electricity until 2000, and still has three intact nuclear reactors.

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0Z0v TIL that Kim Ung-yong understood algebra at age 3, by the time he was 2 could speak 4 languages fluently, started attending university at age 4 and graduated at age 8, and has the highest I.Q. (210) in the world.
x6X9g TIL that Uber drivers have been assaulted (at least) 24,000 times between 2017 and 2020
QJgbX TIL when asked what he was going to do next after he failed to get his party's nomination for reelection in 1856, Franklin Pierce said, “There’s nothing left to do but get drunk.” He later died of liver failure
d8VQ8 TIL Barnum and Bailey’s circus was so logistically efficient that prior to WWI the U.S. War Department would periodically send army officers to travel with them and study their transportation methods in order to improve the logistics of the army’s own artillery service (Davis, 2003, p. 78).
xVRL7 TIL basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is a writer and has written several books set in the Sherlock Holmes universe