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TIL a woman found her wedding ring on a carrot growing in her backyard, 16 years after misplacing it.

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b9O8E TIL in 1946 the Soviet Union built a secret city called City 40 to house workers of a nearby nuclear plant and their families. For decades the fenced city and its 100k inhabitants were officially non existent. Today the city is called Ozersk and it's been exposed to 5x the radiation of Chernobyl.
n5yY TIL that the “Wa” in Wario and Waluigi isn’t an upturned M, it’s actually a portmanteu of Mario and Luigi’s name and the Japanese adjective warui which means “bad”, literally translating to “bad Mario” or “bad Luigi”.
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