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TIL that 1kg of uranium-235 used in nuclear fission creates the same energy as 2.7 million kg of coal

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VBXW0 TIL George Orwell provided the British state with a list of possible communists/subversives before he died in 1949
xVXyo TIL About the "Candy Bombers" who in addition to provided air drops of food to starving people in Berlin during the Soviet blockade also dropped candy for the children. An act that continues today during food drops.
rNanW TIL about Eugène François Vidocq, a deserter and career criminal who became a police informant and, under Napoléon I's First French Empire, the founder of the Sûreté Nationale, hiring other criminals
4kbyX TIL a monarch’s suicide was an essential stepping stone for preparing the world stage for the event that would mark the start of WW1.
8eXE4 TIL of the Great Bison Belt. Sprawling grassland from Alaska to the Gulf of Mexico dated around 9,000BC, may have housed between 30-40 million bison. First seen by English colonists on the Potomac River.