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TIL that during the Chenrobyl disaster - Alexei Ananenko, Valeri Bezpalov and Boris Baranov accepeted a suicide mission to release a safety valve in time and, in doing so, saved the world from a disaster that would have been exponentially worse than the initial explosion.

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lo98K TIL that the actor who played Peter pan died of overdose in NYC and was buried in a mass grave in Hart Island. It was found out because his mother wanted to connect him because of his father's passing.
vPNeK TIL that the Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people with limited competence in a particular domain overestimate their abilities.
JYx1Q TIL that English Parliament was conducted entirely in French until the 1400s. Even today, bills are formally passed into law with a French phrase: "Le Reyne le veult", meaning "The queen wills it."
WNY4 TIL that Frank Sinatra was buried with a bottle of Jack Daniels and a pack of Camel cigarettes.
b9mWN TIL that after the breakup of the Soviet Union, the Lithuanian basketball team couldn't afford to participate in the 1992 Olympics, so the Grateful Dead funded the team's expenses, and the team wore tie-dye uniforms.