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TIL Gouda is pronounced How-da

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LyD0 TIL that the Soviet Union did not admit that a reactor had exploded at Chernobyl until nearly 3 days after radiation from the disaster set off alarms at a nuclear plant in Sweden 1000 km away.
p8Mye TIL If you have an IGA near you and have noticed how localized or regional the offerings are its becasue they're not a chain store like most other grocers. All IGAs are independently owned and run solely by their independent owner.. There are locations in 30 different countries!
D1wOr TIL about David Bowie’s 1983 interview with Mark Goodman where he calls out the lack of black artists featured on MTV
ANVPd TIL in 1955, computer scientist John McCarthy coined the term “artificial intelligence” to attract funding for a project that would go on to launch the field of AI.
XwXX TIL IKEA has designed and deployed a $1000 flat-pack refugee shelter that, like the company’s famous modular furniture, is boxed up shipped with all the tools needed to construct it