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TIL there are more nuclear reactors powering ships (mostly military) than there are generating electric power in commercial power plants worldwide.

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e0jX6 TIL that Kurt Vonnegut was once Geraldo Rivera's father-in-law
MeypV TIL "After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, 365" USAF B-52 Stratofortress heavy bombers "were destroyed under the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty. The aircraft were stripped of usable parts, chopped into five pieces with a 13,000 pound steel blade and sold for scrap at 12 cents per pound."
5Y4XB TIL Jim Carey auditioned for SNL three times but was never cast
xVNAk TIL that the name PEZ is an abbreviation of PfeffErminZ, which is German for peppermint.
5YPMP TIL of Loulis, a chimp who learned to communicate trought sign languange, but he wasn't taught by humans: he learned the signs from his adoptive mother, Washoe, the first chimp to ever learn sign languange