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TIL 3 men, Alexei Ananenko, Valeri Bezpalov, and Boris Baranov, sacrificed themselves to save millions of people by diving into the reservoir beneath Chernobyl’s reactor to cease an imminent steam explosion that would’ve turned catastrophe-level accident into a doomsday-level accident.

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