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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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PYOkL TIL that Helen Keller was an radical activist, campaigning for the Socialist Party and helping start the ACLU.
OG5O6 TIL There have been at least 37 different political parties called "The Communist Party of Nepal"
DGmj TIL in response to an interview where Huey P. Newton, co-founder of the Black Panther Party, was asked what white people could do to support the Black Panthers, he replied that they could form a White Panther Party. The WPP was founded thereafter.
44PR TIL that there’s an underground city beneath Beijing that covers 85 square kilometres. Built in the 70s in preparation for nuclear war it’s described as being “dark, damp, and genuinely eerie”
xA61 TIL the rat poison/life saving human medication Coumadin was discovered after cows were observed eating clover and then bleeding to death.