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TIL Opossums are actually really helpful to humans.

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awk1L TIL that the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant generated electricity until December 2000, when reactor 3 was finally shut down.
5Yx7r TIL Pocahontas (c. 1595-1617) was born Matoaka. The name "Pocahontas" (meaning "the naughty one" or "spoiled child"), a childhood nickname. In her last days, she went by Rebecca Rolfe. The marriage between John Rolfe and Pocahontas was the first recorded interracial marriage in American history.
J19Kv TIL that birds rub ants on themselves. This behavior is known as 'anting' and is thought to serve self-maintenance functions
dDVoZ TIL about the Anglo-Zanzibar War, which took place on August 27, 1896. It was just a thirty-eight minute war between the British Empire and the East African island nation of Zanzibar, making it the shortest war in history.
VV70 TIL Lake Superior is so voluminous it could cover the entire area of the United States in over 4 feet of water