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TIL about Fordite: layers of hardened automobile paint taken off factory floors that are cut and polished and can be made into jewelry.

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KONra TIL the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster could have been even more catastrophic, but 2000 workers at the sister Fukushima II Plant succeeded in stabilizing their reactors and achieving cold shut down.
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