When I finally talked to my mom about the whole "how is everybody related" thing....

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She mentioned somebody I couldn't remember ever hearing about. This is apparently because he died. Of cancer. Just like everybody else in the family (except those who had cancer and didn't die). According to mommy, this just started happening after Chernobyl.

If I'm reading this map correctly, Chernobyl is over 1200 miles away from Belgium. This is how far the effects went? Scary, no?

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Yes. The article I grabbed was 2003, but at that point there were something like 180 000 sheep which still had restricted movements because of Chernobyl.