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TIL the president of the NAACP is a white guy.

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OoER6 TIL Hiroshima's national flower is the red Canna(Oleandor) Glower, as it was the first type of flower to grow nearly 75 years after the atomic bombing.
O6Z7 TIL a Chernobyl fireman who claimed they didn’t know that the Chernobyl meltdown flames were radioactive, 20 years later said “Of course we knew! If we’d followed regulations, we would never have gone near the reactor. But it was a moral obligation – our duty. We were like kamikaze.”
pY1rb TIL that the Mpemba effect is a phenomenon where hot water can freeze faster than cold water under certain conditions, contradicting our intuition about thermodynamics.
wonyP TIL in 1987, three unidentified individuals hijacked two Chicago television signals wearing a Max Headroom mask. Where the man was seen and heard uttering garbled remarks before dropping his pants, partially exposing his buttocks, and was then spanked with a flyswatter by a woman.
Aw6o TIL that the Largest Nuclear Power Plant in the world is in Ontario, Canada and that their security force has won the U.S. National SWAT Championship four times.