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TIL how nuclear power plant works

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yQjEp TIL Barbie was based on a 1940's comic strip about a buxom gold digging escort named Lili. Mattel copied the design from a adult novelty toy version of the character.
4X79a TIL Winston Churchill, a notorious drinker, circumvented prohibition while visiting the U.S. by obtaining a letter from his doctor prescribing alcohol for treatment following a vehicular accident.
J1PrB TIL that the US Mullet Championships is the largest competition in the world in terms of the number of applicants: upwards of 1,000 each year
0My TIL: The “Little Red-Haired Girl” in Peanuts was based off Donna Mae Johnson.After dating for three years Schulz proposed to her but she turned him down.
b9j07 TIL of Field Marshal Garnet Wolseley, who fought in multiple theatres of the Empire ranging from Canada to Ghana, whose efficiency in battle led to the phrase "everything's all Sir Garnet", meaning "All is in order."