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

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QNLKE TIL Lemmy.World allows users to have animated webp avatars and banners.
N901 TIL Famed dentist Painless Parker (who wore a necklace of teeth) & his Dental Circus lured naive patients by promising that the 50c extraction would be painless, or he’d pay $5. Screams of agony were drowned by a brass band while the audience was distracted, enjoying contortionists & dancing women.
epvLk TIL About the Laconia Incident where a German U-Boat sunk the RMS Laconia, a British passenger liner. When it was rescuing survivors and towing them to a French handover, it was attacked by a US B-24 and led to the Kriegsmarine no longer assisting ships they sunk for the rest of the war.
jNyoN TIL Conan O’Brien was his high school’s valedictorian and graduated magna cum laude from Harvard. He majored in American History and was the president of the Harvard Lampoon.
EgDWP TIL Ronald Reagan instituted the deregulation of advertising to children in the 1980s. This allowed companies to market as much as they wanted to kids, leading to an explosion of new toys, cartoons, junk food, and breakfast cereals.