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TIL Nuclear Power Prevents More Deaths Than It Causes

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Exww TIL. Ryan Gosling was asked to audition to be part of the Backstreet Boys but didn’t and chose to pursue acting instead.
0PQM TIL Flying squirrels are actually native to most the United States, people just don’t see them because they’re nocturnal… and flying
X05eP TIL The owner of the New England Patriots, Robert Kraft, was able to buy the team largely due to a prior owner’s financial difficulties due to financing a Jackson Five Tour
E1L8o TIL That the production staff of the film 1917 (2019) had to put signs around one of the filming locations warning walkers in the area not to be alarmed at the artificial body parts strewn around.
VM4wG TIL in 1590 there was a Hungarian noblewoman named Elizabeth Báthory, aka Countess Dracula. She has the Guinness World Records as the most prolific female murderer of all time. The highest number of victims cited during her trial was 650, most of them servant girls aged 10 to 14 years