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TIL that Kodak maintained an underground nuclear reactor for over 30 years.

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wLmgP TIL That in Brazil when a kid is lost on the beach people start to clap around him so the parents can find him easy
epgWb TIL Martha Gellhorn was the only woman reporter at the D-Day landings. Having been refused accreditation, she got there by stowing away in the toilet of a hospital ship until it set sail. She went ashore with medics to help bring back the wounded and reported on what she saw and heard.
4k8KR TIL that women's football was banned in England from 1921 until 1971.
QNrDp TIL of the Casuarina (she-oak/Australian pine), a tree that looks like a pine tree with its needle-like leaves but is actually a flowering plant.
yQAxw TIL that Juneau, the capital city of Alaska, is larger in land area than Delaware and Rhode Island combined, but is comprised of only about ~32,000 people