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TIL Uranium-235 generates 2.5 million times more than the energy released from burning coal.

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ANWm4 TIL an originator of the lobotomy procedure, António Egas Moniz, received the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1949. Since then the Nobel Foundation has not rescinded the award, and in fact there is still an article active from the foundation defending the award.
VMRmZ TIL that the world's largest cannabis grow-op is Canada's Aurora Sky near Edmonton, Alberta. The 800,000 sq. ft. greenhouse is the size of 14 football fields and produces 8,000 kg (17,363 lbs) of marijuana (roughly 12 million joints) per month.
nwKo TIL the common garden snail can pass over the edge of razor blade without harm
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