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TIL that scientists at Chernobyl shot at radioactive material with an AK-47 in order to break off chunks for analysis

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VM4Q8 TIL that even though Philo Farnsworth, the inventor of electronic television, was disappointed by it for most of his life, he changed his mind the day he saw Neil Armstrong walk on the Moon thanks to his invention, telling his wife "this has made it all worthwhile".
mawO TIL It is now possible to navigate a houseboat from Paris to Moscow
8e6nL TIL that a rapper, Wu-Tang offiliated - opted to chop his own penis off. And did so.
NEoe TIL in 1998, a woman disappeared while awaiting trial after she had drunkenly killed a woman in a fatal car crash. In 2013, she was arrested in Manitoba, Canada after bragging in a bar about having gotten away with the crime.
WkDAA TIL that on pianos dating from the 18th century when Mozart was alive, the colors of the keys was exactly reversed: the white keys were black and the black keys were white.