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TIL ‘Miami Vice’ star Don Johnson once asked Hunter S. Thompson the famous Zen riddle 'Whats the sound of one hand clapping?’, Thompson’s answer? “He reached up and slapped me upside the head", says Johnson.

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Z8JYG TIL that the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant had four reactors and only one was impacted by the 1986 meltdown; the others continued producing power for several years and one (Reactor No. 3) produced power until it was decommissioned in 2000.
OGjBa TIL: During WWII, the British used a dead body with fake documents to trick the Nazis into defending the wrong location, leading to the successful invasion of Sicily.
KAR6 TIL that, initially, the Roswell UFO incident was almost immediately dismissed and forgotten until The National Enquirer ran a story on it in 1980.
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