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

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gr8rD TIL that we don't REALLY know who invented coffee, though we know its origins in and around the Arabian peninsula in the 15th century
wobVP TIL Twin Peaks was massively popular in Japan in the early 1990s. Daytime TV programs speculated about the identity of Laura Palma’s killer, mock funerals were held and a wide range of merchandise was sold. It also inspired games like Silent Hill and Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening
dNK TIL there are no snakes in Hawaii
neGnb TIL that an observatory in Germany is designed to look like R2-D2.
5VBNp TIL that Svetlana Savitskaya, the second woman in space, arrived at Mir (modular space station) in 1982, where she was greeted with an apron as a welcome present, and jokingly told to get to work in the kitchen by her fellow cosmonauts.