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TIL that every member of The Beatles cited "Happiness Is A Warm Gun" as their favorite song off of The White Album

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0m0j TIL: The Hawaiian alphabet only has twelve letters: a,e,i,o,u,h,k,l,m,n,p,w
ebDJ TIL China is leading world efforts in Molten Salt Reactor technology (safer nuclear power), hoping to commercially deploy them by 2030.
neEvr TIL In 1974, Johnny Carson requested that NBC stop airing Tonight Show reruns on the weekend as he wanted to save those reruns for the extra vacation days he was planning to take. NBC wanted to fill those slots, so they hired Lorne Michaels to develop a show. That show became SNL.
X0mXk TIL that Essex police firearms officers in the UK have not had to fire a single shot in over 8 years, and responded to over 500 incidents this year.
rZ5W TIL scientists believe that the primary cause of a puzzling decline in bee population is neonicotinoid pesticides. The pesticides–banned in Europe since 2013–decrease the sperm count of male bees by nearly 40 percent, as well as cutting their lifespan