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TIL the only organization to have ever operated full scale nuclear facilities without a single serious safety incident is the US Navy, largely credited to the work of Hyman G Rickover

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lMga TIL “Aluminum” started as a misspelling of “Aluminium” on a handbill by Charles Martin Hall, the American Industrialist who made Aluminum production practical
WemX TIL from 1970 to 2010, populations of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish have declined by an average of 52%. We are not in the “beginning” of the Sixth Great Extinction. We are in the middle of it.
N7wJb TIL in 2008 Prince Charles paid a nearly 400 years old debt of £453.15, made by King Charles II, who did not have enough money for the clothes of his soldiers, before the last battle of the British civil war.
GYQME TIL that people spend about 6 years of a typical lifetime dreaming. We also cannot dream and snore at the same time.
rebw TIL if Forrest Gump had kept his Apple investment from the end of the film he would now be worth well over $7 billion.