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TIL that After the Chernobyl reactor went into meltdown the pine forest surrounding it turned the colour of copper after dying from radiation absorption

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WkaG8 TIL The Slovak government had to overturn an internet driven decision to name a bridge after Chuck Norris.
G7Yj TIL that two pharmaceutical companies own a patent claiming that cannabis helps kill cancer cells by promoting the re-emergence of apoptosis so that some tumours will heed the signals, stop dividing, and die.
P1ZnE TIL strength training also involves the nervous system, where your strength is not only determined by how big your muscles are, but by how well the nervous system can recruit muscles, synchronize their firing, and prevent mechanisms designed to prevent your body from tearing itself apart.
a98y TIL that at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp where Jewish prisoners forged the perfect counterfeit Bank of England note, the prisoners marked them with a pinhole in the Britannia (Roman Goddess of Britain) on the note, showing that they were forged.
Yw1d TIL that Jesse Spencer, the actor who plays Dr. Chase in House M.D., has three siblings, all of which are doctors.