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

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j6njQ TIL about Marion Crawford, Queen Elizabeth governess. After she wrote a book about the private lives of the royal family they completely shunned her. No member of the royal family spoke to her again and they did not even acknowledge her death.
nWr1P TIL David Bowie had the first version of My Way, later sung by Frank Sinatra.
vN74 TIL all of the tin produced in the US is recycled. The United States has neither mined tin since 1993 nor smelted tin since 1989, but it was the largest secondary producer, recycling nearly 14,000 tonnes in 2006.
QQXa TIL that John Murtha, a sitting congressman til his death in 2010, was one of the corrupt politicians targeted in the sting on which American Hustle was based, and he was never prosecuted
6g87 TIL that the PC version of Alan Wake has a piracy protection that shames the players.