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TIL Nuclear power is actually better environmentally than coal.

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8n1P TIL - Rick James (“Superfreak”) was in a band with Neil Young, Bruce Palmer (Buffalo Springfield) and Nick St. Nicholas (Steppenwolf) before having to serve a year in prison because he was actually AWOL from the navy
6JWQ TIL Dr. Seuss was confronted by a feminist who claimed there were no strong female roles in his books. He remarked that most of his characters are animals, and if she could identify their sex, he would remember her in his will.
kJwj5 TIL Uwe Boll, famous director of hit movies such as House of the Dead and Alone in the Dark, now owns and operates multiple restaurants and has been somewhat successful at it since 2015.
oRO7o TIL that Venus flytrap is named so, because it resembles female genitalia
DQBmV TIL a man named Muhammad al-Qahtani claimed to be the Mahdi (a messianic figure in Islamic eschatology) and formed a cult following that besieged and took over Al-Haram, the holiest Islamic site, in the city of Mecca for more than two weeks, and had left 255 pilgrims killed and hundreds injured