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TIL Nuclear Generated electricity, by far, kills fewer Humans per Megawatt than any other source, including solar and hydro.

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R5N07 TIL of John George Haigh whose crimes made him initially known as the Vampire of London before he was hanged in 1949.
l7xjN TIL the images of space you see from space telescopes like the James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope are initially in black and white and the colors are later edited in by people.
Dbje TIL that a man planted 7,000 trees to make a guitar shaped forest as tribute to his late wife.
R50e7 TIL the Casino Estoril in Cascais, Portugal, was a source of inspiration for Ian Fleming's "Casino Royale" (1953), the fist James Bond novel.
yVYEM TIL about a group of proteins called E3 ubiquitin ligases. They recognize misfolded or damaged proteins in the body. The human genome contains over 600 genes responsible for encoding these proteins. The mutation of the E3 ubiquitin ligase called "parkin" causes familial Parkinson's Disease.