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

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kJo74 TIL that before the 19th century, the Versailles was often extremely dirty. Women pulled up their skirts up to pee where they stood, while some men urinated in the middle of the royal chapel. Marie-Antoinette was once hit by human waste being thrown out the window as she walked through a courtyard.
5ajn TIL Mr. Krabs is 73 years old.
OQn4 TIL that a year before his death, Karl Marx no longer associated himself with the current state of communism and declared that “I myself am not a Marxist”.
ZpwyY TIL the Dodge Brothers sued Henry Ford in 1919 after Ford tried to use his massive profits to increase wages and make car prices more affordable, claiming that a corporation's sole purpose must be to generate profit for shareholders instead of to benefit employees or consumers. They won.
Z84JR TIL of the Tulsa Center of the Universe. An acoustic anomaly located in Oklahoma. When one stands in the center of the circle and makes a noise, that noise is echoed back several times louder than it was made, but no one standing outside the circle can hear a thing.