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TIL of the 2020 Chernobyl exclusion wildfires that spread radiation

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R9Jw TIL Hemingway sent F Scott Fitzgerald a draft of A Farewell to Arms, Fitzgerald sent it back with 10 pages of edits, to which Hemingway wrote back: “Kiss my ass.”
XNX8 TIl Forensic Lip Readers have analyzed silent footage from World War 1 and were able to reconstruct conversations that were previously thought to be lost in time.
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Z6na TIL of the existence of the monstrous cthurkey, an octopus-stuffed turkey with crab legs and bacon
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