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Til| Coal power plants give off more radiation than nuclear power plants.

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ZR1G TIL that in Santa Fe, New Mexico a nameless stranger came out of nowhere, built a mysterious staircase in a church out of foreign wood and primitive tools. It is thought by the nuns of that church that the carpenter was Saint Joseph.
xVOk TIL that Ian Fleming’s last recorded words were an apology to the ambulance drivers for having inconvenienced them, saying “I am sorry to trouble you chaps. I don’t know how you get along so fast with the traffic on the roads these days.”
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