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TIL there are about 100 people, mostly elderly women, that currently live in the Chernobyl exclusion zone

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9wkl6 TIL that while typing on your mobile phone you can slide on the space bar to move the cursor.
grw1A Til that the designer of the SS rune symbol was only paid about $2 for his design.
dMpZ TIL that a higher percentage of free blacks owned slaves (28%) than free whites (1.4%).
pYWXp TIL the medical research surrounding having people’s gender not matching their genetic markers has been occurring for a very long time. Genetically born males who cannot process androgens such as testosterone and grow up female because medically it was the best outcome. Many didn’t even know.
MeLpK TIL that Phobos, one of the martian moons, is slowly spiraling inward to eventual destruction and Mars will eventually have a ring