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TIL Nuclear power has 4,000 times fewer deaths per watt produced than coal.

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pQo4 TIL in the Winter War, the Soviets, while bombing the Finns, claimed they were air-dropping food to the “starving people of Helinski”. The Finnish people dubbed the Soviet bombs “Molotov bread baskets”, and in return called their firebombs Molotov cocktails, as “a drink to go with the food.”
R5mlj TIL TIL the Maori committed a mass genocide of New Zealand's second-largest indigenous group, the Moriori
v1L8K TIL 9 and 1/2 weeks the film was based on a book about an actual short term adventurous relationship that turns abusive, and is actually noticeably darker than the film.
9YjYX TIL of a theory that suggests that the earliest Old World contact with the Americas was not with Columbus or Norse settlers, but with the Phoenicians in the first millennium BC
p5Nb TIL the Curiosity rover is powered by a chunk of onboard plutonium.