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TIL radioactive boars run wild in abandoned towns around the Fukushima nuclear disaster zone, and occasionally attack people.

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E8Y7 TIL in 1999, a young trainee surgeon travelled to Kosovo to provide medical help to victims of war. In a strange turn of events, Craig Jurisevic became a Mafia target, and played a part in the bombing of 400 Serbian forces.
AXyl TIL Nigerians make up less than 1 percent of the black population in the United States, yet make up one-quarter of the black students at Harvard Business School; over a fourth of Nigerian-Americans have a graduate or professional degree, as compared with only about 11 percent of whites.
na7d TIL that kid rock has capped ticket prices to his shows at $20 and limited beer prices to $4 max anywhere at any venue he performs.
yW6a TIL In England and Wales it’s legal to consume alcohol on private premises from the age of 5.
x6MAb TIL in 1877 Egyptian Government gifted a gigantic 3500 year old obelisk to the US and it took teams of engineers years to remove, ship, transport over land, and erect in Central Park