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TIL Musicians United for Safe Energy, or MUSE, is an activist group founded by Jackson Browne, Graham Nash, Bonnie Raitt and others, shortly after the Three Mile Island nuclear accident in March 1979, that advocates against the use of nuclear energy.

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VBBWB TIL About the Wowowee stampede that killed 73 people and injured 400 when a game show employee announced that only the first 300 people out of the 30,000 that showed up would get tickets the the popular Filipino game show Wowowee.
nerBP TIL of Cliff Young, an Australian potato farmer who at age 61 entered the 1983 Sydney-Melbourne ultramarathon wearing work boots and overalls. He ran non-stop for five days and 15 hours, won by ten hours and donated all of his $10,000 winnings to the five other people who managed to finish the race
lo5g5 TIL that the "pink for girls, blue for boys" color scheme didn't become common until the mid 20th century. Earlier in the 1900s it was actually "pink for boys, blue for girls".
VBGg4 TIL that all of the rubber in a car tyre is one single molecule.
6Ee7w TIL there’s an island in Australia full of miniature kangaroos called ‘quokkas’