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TIL Quebec banned all children under 16 years of age from attending movie theaters until 1961 due to a fire in a movie theater that killed 78 people, mostly children and teenagers, in 1927

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KONra TIL the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster could have been even more catastrophic, but 2000 workers at the sister Fukushima II Plant succeeded in stabilizing their reactors and achieving cold shut down.
ZpZmY TIL While living in the white house, JFK had parrots, hamsters, cats, horses, a rabbit named 'Zsa Zsa', and 5 dogs.
Ypo8B TIL Subutai won 65 battles as general of the Mongol Empire including defeating a Russian army of 80K with only 20K soldiers. His tactics were studied by Mikhail Ivanin in the 19th century & incorporated into Russian military academies & the Red Army.
N791M TIL the longest surgery ever recorded was performed in 2001 by a team of 20 doctors; it took 103 hours (more than four days) to complete.
kOX7W TIL that there was a failed Yorkshire uprising in 1820 that failed because the uprisers lost their nerve at the last second