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TIL you could swim in a spent nuclear fuel pool without being harmed

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DQA4r TIL: Mickey Mouse will be in the public domain in 2024.
LR0r TIL Steve Jobs’s pancreatic cancer was curable, and that his decision to use homeopathy while resisting surgery brought him to an early grave. According to the chief of Memorial Sloan–Kettering Cancer Center’s integrative medicine department, he “…essentially committed suicide.”
59yr TIL there are at least 67 different moons orbiting Jupiter, three of which could have potentially habitable environments
wLp46 TIL about Operation Popeye, when the US military successfully controlled the weather by seeding rain clouds, extending the monsoon season in Vietnam by a month.
nepld TIL that 20 years before the first woman was democratically elected in 1980 as president of a country (namedly Iceland), stateswoman Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Ceylon (present-day Sri Lanka) was elected as prime minister, when she led her party to victory at the 1960 general election.