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Zpamo TIL Caroline Dhavernas (from Hannibal and Wonderfalls) is the voice of Montreal REM metro train network. Her mother, Michèle Deslauriers, was the previous voice.
4XP4g TIL about Earth’s oldest known natural Nuclear Reactor, located in Oklo, Gabon. It's around two-billion years old, and was thought to have been active for several thousand years. Its average power output was 100 kilowatts, enough to run a few dozen toasters.
xVEko TIL The maximum amount of money you can win in a single game of Jeopardy is $566,400.
R7voQ TIL that since the 13th century, the German Princely House of Reuss has named all its male children Heinrich, who are identified by a number. Numbers are assigned in birth order and roll over each century: the current patriarch is Heinrich XIV, whose two sons are named Heinrich XXIX and Heinrich V
yQYvv TIL of the Bohemian Grove: A restricted 2700 acre campground in California that is only available for the world's elite. It is described as a private vacation getaway yet it is famous for hosting the Manhattan Project planning meeting in 1942, that led to the creation of the atomic bomb.