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

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l7M0V TIL there were about 4,500 lynchings in the USA from 1883-1941 - mostly blacks in the South, and whites outside of it. This averages to 78 killings per year throughout the entire country. The population of the United States was 50-130 million from 1880-1940.
W7NXd TIL An oil drilling operation at Lake Peigneur, Louisiana accidentally punctured a salt dome, creating a sinkhole that swallowed barges and caused the Delcambre Canal to flow backwards.
R7b1a TIL about Nelson Bryant who lost his trench knife in 1944 during World War II as he escaped from nearby enemy soldiers in Holland. 73 years after the day he parachuted into Groesbeek, Holland, Mr. Bryant will receive his lost knife.
4kPa6 TIL that NASA's spacesuits cost over $12 million each, and the agency has fewer than a dozen functional ones remaining.
9QYQ TIL that during WWII, a German pilot spotted an American pilot’s crippled plane in the sky. Tailing it, he noticed that gunner was dead, crew injured, and they posed no threat. Instead of destroying the plane, he led it to safety. 40 years later, the two pilots reunited.