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TIL Dave Grohl only knew Kurt Cobain for about three years and they weren’t very close.

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DybY TIL Kenan Thompson is not only about to break the record for ‘Longest Serving Saturday Night Live Cast Member ever’, he is also the first cast member to be born AFTER the Premiere in 1975.
Zol4 TIL The nuclear disaster at Chernobyl was actually caused by a drill meant to solve another severe safety issue. The explosion occurred when the reactor was mistakenly almost allowed to shut off, then pulling out the control rods completely to try to stop the mistaken shutdown.
4X0W5 TIL In 1850, a man who claimed he was the brother of Jesus started a rebellion in China that killed 30 million people. It was one of the bloodiest conflicts in human history.
AWx4 TIL that Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis dropped the mortality rate for childbirth from 12% to 2% after he insisted doctors wash their hands in between handling cadavers and delivering babies.
Z8oGY TIL that the world's coldest capital city is Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia, with an annual average temperature of -1.3°C (-29.7°F). The second-coldest is Nur-Sultan (formerly Astana) in Kazakhstan, followed by Moscow (Russia), Helsinki (Finland), Reykjavik (Iceland), Tallinn (Estonia), and Ottawa (Canada)