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TIL we can’t dispose of nuclear waste in volcanoes because they aren’t hot enough to split uranium’s atomic nuclei and make it's​ radioactivity inert

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Qmkp TIL famed sci-fi author Isaac Asimov refused the invitation to renowned A.I. pioneer Marvin Minsky’s lab at MIT in the 1960s because he was “Writing about really intelligent robots of the future and was sure that if he came and saw the clumsy ones that we were making it would spoil his imagination.”
DQQrY TIL The largest carnival float ever was 35 m, featuring a skateboarding bulldog surfing in an 24 m ocean of water. It weighed 45,000 kg
loWvV TIL that betweeen 70% and 80% of medical students suffer a temporary form of hypochondria known as "Medical Student Syndrome"
6KXJ TIL Stalin’s body double was teased in school because of the resemblance with Stalin
VB6VQ TIL That Peter Dinklage is only 3 inches shorter than Simone Biles