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TIL that our use of "Nuclear Power" in "Nuclear Power Plants" is simply used to just boil water.

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pYnnN TIL that baby chickens imprinting on a robot that was made to randomly move in a room affected the robots movements. This means that hoping for a song in a playlist on shuffle and getting that same song like you were hoping for may not be a coincidence.
MeAJW TIL that the common practice to produce antivenom comes from horses. They are given very low doses of snake venom over long periods of time. Eventually the blood is taken from the animal, and the antibodies are purified out. The antibodies inside that blood then bind and neutralise the venom.
d8jn8 TIL, Sea World San Diego managed to keep Blue Sharks, a beautiful pelagic species, in captivity. Until they added bull sharks, which ate the blues. No one has managed to copy the feat since.
GAPjN TIL That in 2009 the king of Thailand Vajiralongkorn promoted his dog Fufu to the rank of Air chief marshal.
9aAG TIL Stephen Colbert took over a Michigan public access TV show in July 2015 for one episode, during which he provided news about local events, made fun of a local Yelp reviewer, and interviewed Eminem.