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TIL Sam Houston is the only person to be elected governor of two different states (TN and TX).

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rK4 TIL that until 1987 all media stations were legally required to provide fair and balanced coverage to controversial issues
0Gn5 TIL that Jet Li was presumed dead during the Indian Ocean Tsunami disaster.
gMy1X TIL: The amount of radioactive cesium that was leaked from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster is about equal to 168 of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima at the end of World War II.
ANwmo today i learned that a coin flip isn't 50/50 but 51/49
Wo7N TIL Lance Von Allmen developed an oil containment system that uses chemically treated cellulose to perfectly absorb crude oil in water, and then wring the cellulose to get all of the crude oil back. He died a year after this aired. WHY wasn’t this used to clean up Deepwater Horizon?