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TIL the Chernobyl power plant didn’t go completely off line until the year 2000

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7BLZ TIL string instruments often have a “wolf tone” where the resonance of a certain note creates a conflict between the vibrating string and and the body of the instrument.
Z8V6R TIL about Akashinga. An all female, all vegan group that prevents poaching in Africa
wdlP TIL Eminem repeated the 9th grade three times.
vPB6L TIL there is no scientific evidence that white people originated in the Caucasus, as the term “Caucasian” suggests. Rather, the term was created because Noah’s Ark allegedly settled there, and therefore the first humans were supposedly white.
E1jrx TIL Ibrahim II of Ifriqiya ordered the execution of every one of his daughters upon birth. When he learned that sixteen of his daughters had escaped notice and had grown to adulthood, he invited them to a reception, greeted them kindly and then beheaded all of them.