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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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gaoD TIL: From 1885 until 1896, the first artificial structure visible to immigrants arriving to the United States was the giant Coney Island Elephant
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w89M TIL that during the Cold War the USSR and the USA planned to go to jointly go to space together, but the assassination of JFK caused the plan to fall through because the soviets didn’t trust his replacement.
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