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TIL the Chernobyl disaster released approximately 400 times more radioactive fallout than that of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima

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ZpGAo TIL in the 1970s Gerber attempted to market "adult baby food" to college students and other young adults.
NB48 Til A California judge tossed out a case against a former Navy man caught in a sting orchestrated by the NBC program To catch a predator in part because the show’s producers engage in entrapment.
eJn5 TIL That there are exactly 154 living kakapo (the world’s largest parrot) and that they each have their own name (Often Maori names to indicate their New Zealand heritage). Scientists track their parents to encourage genetic diversity.
XELlX TIL increasingly stringent FDA requirements have lead to a six-fold increase in drug development costs
M0W8 TIL that after listening to Is This It by the Strokes, lead singer of The Killers (Brandon Flowers) got so depressed at how good it was that he scrapped all the songs they had been working on except one. That song he kept was Mr. Brightside.