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TIL of the 2020 Chernobyl exclusion wildfires that spread radiation

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4X8DR TIL: Blizzard Entertainment buried encrypted text in their anti-cheat software and a useless function which delivered the encryption key for hackers to find. It was a youtube link to a rick roll
Wrrd TIL in 1954 the USA overthrew the democratically elected Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz and ended the Guatemalan Revolution. It installed the military dictatorship of Carlos Castillo Armas, the first in a series of U.S.-backed dictators who ruled Guatemala.
aw49N TIL Louis Braille was blinded as a boy when using an awl. At age 15, also using an awl, he invented a reading system for the blind. It was never adopted during his lifetime, but after his death it grew to worldwide popularity, and is now known as "braille".
WkE0o TIL Pride-filled Enzo Ferrari dismissed Ferruccio Lamborghini's complaint of rough clutches in the Ferrari 250GT; After successfully modifying one of his personally-owned Ferrari 250GT to outperform stock models, Lamborghini gained the impetus to pursue an automobile manufacturing venture of his own
b6RDQ TIL that the UK has a TV show called Gogglebox in which viewers watch people watching TV.