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QJwGa TIL that France produces 80% of its electricity from nuclear power. Highly radioactive nuclear waste from its production amounts to 10g/year/person. For a person living a 100 years, this amounts to a cube with a side length of 3.8 cm (1.5 inches) - roughly 2/3 the size of a standard Rubick's Cube.
J1dX4 TIL Around 500,000 maya peoples live in the United States
oBxJK TIL that while Martin Luther King Jr. Day was created in 1983, states were slow to accept the holiday. All 50 states didn't celebrate the holiday until 2000.
nWdk7 TIL Paul Newman started his own salad dressing back in 1982. He would then go on to donate 100% of the company’s profits to multiple charities.
Omw6 TIL that a man charged people up to “one billion dollars” to teach them how to survive on breathing alone. When caught eating junk food, he claimed that diet coke and McDonalds cheeseburgers help him “maintain balance” and hold “special 5D properties”