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TIL France recycles 96% of it's nuclear waste from powerplants

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Y7yZZ TIL the bäckadräkten, Sweden's first unisex folk costume
9wYjm TIL Philippe Pétain was a French hero in WWI, who collaborated with the nazis in WWII as leader of Vichy France.
ddpj TIL Canadians attempted to build a ship out of ice during WWII.
76N7 TIL That on September 10th, 2001, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld gave a speech that $2.3 Trillion of Pentagon funds had been unaccounted for, a figure that equated to $8,000 per US citizen that could not be traced to any transactions.
e0AE6 TIL While painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo wrote a poem about the physical toll it took on him.