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TIL Russia has hundreds of nuclear powered lighthouses and beacons along the Northern Shipping Route.

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AODl TIL a woman suffering an asthma attack died after 2 EMT workers told people to call 911 because they were on break
7rPQp TIL Kurt Russell unknowingly destroyed a priceless 1860s Martin acoustic guitar, on loan from the Martin Museum, in the movie The Hateful Eight. The Martin Museum was so upset about the incident, that they vowed to never loan out guitars for film production again.
yQvOv TIL there is a 1420 book that was found to have cat piss on one of its pages. The author of the manuscript even wrote on the page "Cursed be the pesty cat that urinated over this book during the night in Deventer... and beware well not to leave open books at night where cats can come."
LkA4m TIL that in 2013 a novel bat coronavirus was found in a Yunnan cave bat which, unusually, could affect humans; it was extremely similar to the current COVID-19.
p8n1p TIL that in 2008 Anonymous launched the project Chanology, sending endless loops of black pages to the Scientology church's fax machines to waste ink.