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TIL Military Buried In Arlington National Cemetery Who Are Norse Pagan Can Now Have Thor’s Hammer On Their Tombstone.

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mXLY TIL there is a clock being built inside of a mountain that is designed to tick for 10,000 years, and play a unique melody that never repeats itself.
PYgNL TIL the Chernobyl radiation disaster was not reported, and covered-up in Ukaraine after its meltdown. It was initially reported in Sweden, 1100 km away, after a powerful plant employee passed a radiation monitor and set off alerts for high radiation exposure.
b9Y09 TIL before becoming an iconic thriller, Stephen King's first novel "Carrie" was rejected by 30 publishers, causing him to give up and throw it in the trash. His wife retrieved it and urged him to resubmit it.
yZeV TIL that there is a law in São Paulo that prohibits advertising such as that of outdoor posters.
1aav7 TIL that the 1993 VHS release of Aladdin sold 10.6 million copies in its first week.