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TIL in 2011 a small team of Japanese Firefighters saved Tokyo from being uninhabitable for decades by bravely keeping spent fuel rods cooled and unexposed

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e0NV6 TIL only 19 states including D.C. in the U.S. have universal motorcycle helmet laws that require all riders to wear helmets. Illinois and Iowa have no state law on the books while all other states anyone over the age of 17 to 20 depending on the state is not required to wear a helmet while riding.
X0wDR TIL: The 41 extant Felidae (Big and Small Cats) species exhibit the greatest diversity in fur patterns of all terrestrial carnivores.
W09N TIL Anthony Hopkins won the Best Actor oscar for ‘Silence of the Lambs’ with only 16 minutes of screentime.
D1xoj TIL if you trace back the family tree of a drone bee, the number of parents in each generation follows the Fibonacci sequence.
l7B67 TIL the fastest heartbeat ever recorded was 600 beats per minute