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TIL the Fermi Paradox arose as part of a casual conversation in the 1950s when Enrico Fermi asked "But where is everybody?" referring to extraterrestrial life

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V9oG Today I learned that there is a nuclear power plant in Arizona on 4000 ac.², it employs 2055 workers, generates 35% of all the electric energy in Arizona, and it is the only nuclear power plant in the world that is not built next to a body of water.
GYjp7 TIL: Ian Fleming based James Bond on at least 17 different people, but apparently not a real spy named James Bond.
ADYwn TIL that due to tension between Pixar and Disney over whose film it really was, Toy Story had two premiers, one hosted by Disney and one hosted by Steve Jobs. Disney invited actors and other Hollywood celebrities, Jobs invited people from the tech industry.
4XRvX TIL King Gillette, who founded Gillette razors, believed that everyone in the US should live in a giant city called Metropolis powered by Niagara Falls.
R7Xoa TIL clothes hangers weren’t invented until the early 1900s. Before that people had fewer clothes and used shelves and hooks.