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TIL of the Onagawa Nuclear Power Plant that was closest to the epicenter of the 2011 tsunami in Japan but was undamaged because it far exceeded the required safety measures due to the stubbornness of one man. Fukushima famously experienced fatal meltdowns because safety measures were inadequate.

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bOJE TIL Dave Chappelle was originally offered the role of Bubba in Forest Gump, but turned it down. A decision he later regretted
Ge45 TIL that pinball was illegal for 30 years in many major US cities. Politicians thought that pinball was a game based on chance and therefore must have been a mob-run scam. The ban ended when a master pinball player was called in front of a committee to demonstrate his skill.
rR9ve TIL Due to the rise in use of avocados, ERs are seeing more and more "avocado hand" injuries from the slash and stab wounds people sustained from mishandling things, in some cases causing permanent damage and requiring extensive surgery to repair
GA5aQ TIL Writer Nikolai Gogol slowly died of self starvation after refusing all food. His doctors tried to cure him through a number of brutal methods such as force feeding him bouillon, pouring a bucket of hot water on his head, applying half a dozen leeches on his nose and a soap suppository
VnDk TIL that while serving in Cyprus, a British Army Lance Corporal named Billy Windsor head-butted another solder on parade in front of dignitaries from several nations. He was charged and demoted to Fusilier, but was later reinstated, with full mess privileges. Billy Windsor is a fucking goat.