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TIL about Atomgrad, ("Atomic Cities"). Small industrial cities in Eastern Europe set up just to run and support near by nuclear power plants.

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wLGE6 TIL in 2012, a man attempted to pay his traffic ticket with 137 origami dollar bills shaped as pigs, inside of 2 doughnut boxes. The clerk called in police, who required him to unfold every single one to pay his ticket. The event was regarded by the ticketed man as, "The Great Dollar Pig Massacre.".
akPZ TIL that two people were born at the Woodstock music festival in 1969.
J176j TIL former GWAR Bassist Beefcake the Mighty (Michael Bishop) received a Ph.D. in Music from UVA in 2012. After GWAR’s original vocalist died, Dr. Bishop would go on to rejoin the band as their new singer Blöthar the Berserker.
XlEX TIL that all able bodied male citizens of the United States, aged 18-45, are legally part of the Unorganized Militia.
OGxBa TIL the heat from the Mount Vesuvius eruption was so intense, it turned parts of one victim's brain into glass