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TIL that Patrick Moore, co-founder of Greenpeace, admits that he was wrong about nuclear power

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ADM54 TIL: in 1898, Jim White saw bats flying into a tiny hole in the ground, so he crawled down in. The hole led to a cave so big that as he explored it's depths his lantern would burn out and he had to find his way back in pitch blackness by memory. It is now the national park known as Carlsbad Caverns.
4kLpR TIL that Jehovah's Witnesses sent a letter to Hitler asking him to stop persecuting them because they shared the same ethical goals as the Nazi party
BrNrL TIL Lego has no military related sets because the inventor's policy was to not want to make war seem like child's play
rNKMo TIL that heart strings can sometimes break after a deep emotional trauma causing the heart to lose form as a result be unable to pump blood effectively, you can literally die from broken heart.
e555 TIL: The name for Seattle’s “South Lake Union Trolley - the S.L.U.T.” was changed when officials belatedly realized the acronym.