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TIL nuclear energy is the safest energy source in terms of human deaths - even safer than wind and solar.

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R5dy1 TIL blue bunnies are a thing
QJZ7d TIL that the Walkie Talkie building in London can reflect sunlight so intensely that it once melted a car
y4Rw TIL the British Standards Institute has issued standards for the ethical design of robots, declaring that robots should not be designed solely or primarily to kill or harm humans and warning against robots that lack respect for cultural diversity or pluralism.
ANkJd TIL about Franca Viola and the fact that in Italy up until 1981 an accusation of sexual violence would lapse if the perpetrator married his victim in what was called "Rehabilitating Marriage"
4X6RJ TIL that lawyer and political commentator Barbara Olson was flying to California on September 11th, 2001 to be a panelist on Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher. She was on AA Flight 77 which was hijacked and flown into the Pentagon. Maher left a panel chair empty for a week in her memory.