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TIL Coal-fired power plants produce more radioactive waste than nuclear power plants

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yVXM8 TIL that europeans invented racism
0wW1v TIL that in the early 20th century, patients with syphilis were successfully treated by being transfused with infected blood from people with malaria. The researcher was given the 1929 Nobel Prize for his discovery.
Z8d44 TIL Pan Am's 1930s passenger seaplanes from San Francisco to China had to refuel 5 times, so they operated luxury hotels for overnight layovers in remote places like Midway Islands, where its' Pan Am Hotel was known as "Gooneyville Lodge".
n8kr TIL A 17 yr old girl was the sole survivor of an airplane that was struck by lightning. While still strapped to her seat, she fell 2 miles (3km) from the aircraft and landed down into the Amazon rainforest, where she trekked through the jungle for 10 days until she was rescued by local lumbermen.
RXZQ TIL of Onfime, a boy from the 13th century. The only reason we know of him were his handwriting lessons found on pieces of birch.