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TIL the leader of the US nuclear regulatory agency is Mr. Burns

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5Vv4n TIL Natalie Holt, the music composer for the Paddington movie and Loki TV show, threw eggs at Simon Cowell to protest his "dreadful influence on the music business" when she was performing in the backing orchestra for one of the finalists in Britain's Got Talent.
nWewB TIL British Columbia (Canada) is home to more mining exploration companies than anywhere else on earth (over 800)
gOA7 TIL in a study it was found that, when domestic violence is one-sided, in 70% of the cases, women were the perpetrators
X07kj TIL the Black Death contributed greatly to the rise of the British Pub and pub culture. Thanks to the plague, scarcity of labor greatly improved the standard of living for peasants, who in turn spent their extra money on beer.
v1K5B TIL that a German in the 17th century had thousands of liters of urine in his cellar: He originally wanted to create the philosopher's stone, but accidentally discovered phosphorus instead, when boiling said urine.