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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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ne9Go TIL an 18-inch pizza has more pizza than two 12-inch pizzas
vPKor TIL that there's no such thing as a "tree" (phylogenetically)
rRE5e TIL scientists discovered a dinosaur tail perfectly preserved in amber. It is full of feathers.
l7xPB TIL about the Children’s Crusade, where thousands of European children thought that God would allow them to take over Jerusalem, even though 3 previous crusades had failed
MLZ8 TIL in 1970 Jimmy Carter let a prisoner convicted of murder obtain a work release to serve as a maid at the governor’s mansion. He was so impressed, when he was elected president in 1976 he volunteered to be her parole officer & let her continue working at the White House. She was later exonerated.